When life presents you with an obstacle, it can be very easy to give up and accept defeat. This is why healthy practices to keep yourself motivated should include reading and listening to inspirational quotes from your favorite leaders. To assist you in this challenge, we have compiled a list of inspirational quotes that we hope will give you that extra push to progress forward.

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” –Michael Jordan

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” –Farrah Gray

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” –Henry Ford

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” –Muhammad Ali

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” –Nido Qubein

“I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she will make the same effort, and have the same hope and faith.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” —Albert Einstein

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” –Dennis Waitley

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” –Emily Bissell

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” –Vince Lombardi

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” –Thomas Jefferson

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” –Russell Warren

Read them, learn from them, and keep these inspirational quotes near. They can serve as a constant reminder and rejuvenate your drive to overcome your obstacles.

– Sunny Bhatt

Sources: Bright Drops, Forbes, Brainy Quotes
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