30 Motivationial quotes for writers and creatives

​Sometimes when you find your motivation lacking, it can be a great boost to listen to the greats, those who stood up to challenges and overcame when the world said they would fail.

So, here are 30 of our favorite quotes (from authors and other notable people), please let us know which is your favorite and if we missed a classic which has helped to motivate you.
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“Everything is hard before it is easy." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." --Ernest Hemingway

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” --Mark Twain

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." --Henry David Thoreau

 "Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight." --​Stephen King

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." —​Maya Angelou

 "As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." —​Rumi

"Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet." —​Jeanette Walls

"Straight roads do not make skillful drivers." --P. Coelho

"To avoid criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." --​Aristotle

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” --Mark Twain

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”-- Mark Caine

“The Best Way To Get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing.” -- Walt Disney

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” --Herbert Bayard Swope

"If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission." --Anonymous

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” --Francis Chan

"If you're going through hell keep going." --Winston Churchill

“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” --Steve Jobs

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” --Thomas A. Edison

“Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.” --Dax Shepard

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” --Harriet Tubman

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” --George S. Patton

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” --Aristotle Onassis

“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. --Walter Anderson

"No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." --Anonymous

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

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” --Aristotle

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”  --Oprah Winfrey

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” --Dale Carnegie

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” --Pablo Picasso