56 "You Got This" Quotes for Overcoming Obstacles, and Inner Toughness (2024)

Looking for motivation from some of history’s famous and greatest minds? These 56 quotes will remind you that you got this!

Finding the motivation to be the best we can be and make the most of our daily lives doesn’t come easily.

Each day bring it’s own challenges, choices and stress – it’s pretty exhausting.

The tough times we’ve all experienced in 2020 and 2021 prove this more than any words could.

And yet, words and quotes can also be incredibly powerful.

They can be a reminder of some truth we’ve long forgotten. Or maybe offer a valuable insight we’ve never considered before.

Through the simplicity of a wise quote, a task that was difficult may suddenly become much simpler. Our perception can be changed completely and quotes can motivate us to act.

Reading the right quote can be the decisive factor in reaching your goal, and remind you…

You got this!

Here are 55 quotes to prove you already have everything you need to overcome obstacles, ignore fear, and achieve what you want in life.

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

2. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
   – Les Brown
3. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’”
   – Audrey Hepburn
4. “The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don’t.”
   – Zig Ziglar
5. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
   – Henry Ford

6. “There is no illusion greater than fear.”
   – Lao Tzu
7. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
   – Mark Twain
8. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
   – Anais Nin
9. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
   – Muhammad Ali

10. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
    – Vivian Greene
11. “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.”
    – Thucydides
12. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson
    

13. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    – Nelson Mandela
14. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.”
    – Maya Angelou
15. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
    – Robert Frost
16. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
    – Winston S. Churchill

17. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
    – Aristotle
18. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
    – Barack Obama
19. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
    – Benjamin Franklin
20. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
    – Thomas A. Edison

21. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
    – Arnold Schwarzenegger
22. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
    – Ernest Hemingway
23. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    – Friedrich Nietzsche
    

24. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
    – Wayne Dyer
26. “You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.”
    – Diana Ross
27. “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
    – Sarah Ban Breathnach

28. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
    – Walt Disney
29. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
    – James Cameron
30. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    – Robert Louis Stevenson
31. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
    – Wayne Gretzky
32. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
    – Amelia Earhart

33. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
    – Confucius
34. “I’m a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.”
    – Martin Freeman
35. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
    – Roy T. Bennett
36. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
    – Dale Carnegie

37. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
    – Maya Angelou
38. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    – Marcus Aurelius
39. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
    – Mahatma Gandhi
40. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
    – Otto Rank
41. “My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.”
    – Emery Lord

42. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    – Buddha
43. “Silence is a source of great strength.”
    – Lao Tzu
44. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
    – Bruce Lee
45. “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”
    – Vernon Howard
    

46. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
    – Bruce Lee
47. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
    – Muhammad Ali
48. “Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
    – Michael Jordan
49. “Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.”
    – Prabakaran Thirumalai
50. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
    – Coco Chanel
51. “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
    – Sam Ewing

52. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
    – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
53. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
    – David Bly
54. “Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.”
    – Mary Lou Retton
55. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
    – Ann Landers
56. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
    – Muhammad Ali