100 Powerful Thoughts of the Day to Inspire You

Introduction

Thought of the day, The first thing you do every day is to start by focusing on a positive thought will determine the tone that will guide the rest of the day. If you’re seeking motivation or wisdom, or even positive energy, these 100 powerful ideas for the day will assist you in finding determination, focus and inspiration. Every thought could provide the spark of inspiration to help you continue going ahead.

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1. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

2. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

3. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

4. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

5. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

6. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

7. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

8. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

9. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

10. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine–and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

11. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

12. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

13. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

14. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

15. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

16. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

17. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

18. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” – Oprah Winfrey

19. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

20. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

21. “Your life only gets better when you get better.” – Brian Tracy

22. “What we think, we become.” – Buddha

23. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

24. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

25. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

26. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

27. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale

28. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

29. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

30. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W.P. Kinsella

31. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs

32. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

33. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

34. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

35. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

36. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett

37. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

38. “Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.”

39. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

40. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

41. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

42. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone

43. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

44. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

45. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

47. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart

48. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.” – Conrad Hilton

49. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

50. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

51. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

53. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

54. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

55. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears.” – Chantal Sutherland

56. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden

57. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

58. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

59. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh

60. “It’s not about how fast you get there, it’s about the journey.”

61. “Great things never come from comfort zones.”

62. “Strive for progress, not perfection.”

63. “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.”

64. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”

65. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”

66. “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.”

67. “You are stronger than you think.”

68. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

69. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

70. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”

71. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

72. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

73. “Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.”

74. “Believe in the power of yet.”

75. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn

76. “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”

77. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

78. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy

79. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

80. “Small daily improvements are the key to long-term success.”

81. “Believe in your infinite potential.”

82. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”

83. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

84. “Your limitation–it’s only your imagination.”

85. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”

86. “Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.”

87. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”

88. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

89. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

90. “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”

91. “Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

92. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

93. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

94. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

95. “Don’t get pushed around by the thoughts of fear in your head. Follow the visions within your in your.” in your heart.” Roy T. Bennett

96. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

97. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller

98. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

99. “Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”

100. “Stay positive, work hard, make it happen.”

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Each of these ideas could give you a fresh outlook on life, and encourage you to tackle the day with renewed determination. Choose one every day as your daily reminder!