Staying motivated on any creative project—podcasts or otherwise—can be hard.
Creative endeavors often take a lot of personal time and passion, and you might not see those efforts pay off right away. That can be super discouraging!
That’s why we’ve collected some of our favorite motivational quotes in one place for you: so you can always have a source of inspiration when you start to hit that creative wall.
Since our site is about podcasting specifically, we’ve selected these quotes with podcasters in mind. However, many of them apply to a wide range of personal passions and situations. Chances are, you’ll be able to pull some inspiration from them even if you are one of the few people here not trying to start a podcast.
How Inspirational Quotes Help Podcasters
For podcasters in particular, it takes an average of 2 years and/or 100 episodes to see any results from your show at all.
Especially when first starting a podcast, aspiring podcasters may feel discouraged when they don’t see a huge listener base or tons of social media followers appear in the first couple of months.
Come back to this page when you find yourself wondering if it’s worth it to keep your show going, or when you feel like your podcast isn’t successful enough. Odds are, many now-successful podcasters, celebrities, and businesspeople have felt the same at one time or another.
Sometimes all you need to get the fire burning again to read the experiences and advice of others.
Enjoy the inspirational quotes below, or share your own favorite quotes about podcasting with us in the comments! (If you want to submit a quote from your own podcast, that’s fine too! Just let us know the quote and the timestamp it appears in your show so we can verify your submission.)
Motivational Quotes to Inspire You to Keep Going
Here are some of our favorite motivational quotes to turn to when we’re feeling stuck. Our team is big fans of writing down inspiring quotes when we hear them, so these have been pulled from a variety of sources, including podcasts, movies, TV shows, and more.
“It really is that thing of, like, don’t be afraid to make mistakes and don’t be afraid to be wrong. It’s what gets you to your next thing. And no one cares except for you. Pay attention to your mistakes and, you know, work on them.”
— My Favorite Murder, Rewind Episode No. 8
“Courage is the key to creativity.” — Timothy Leary
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you’re right.”— Henry Ford
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“An overnight success is 10 years in the making.” – Tom Clancy
“What made me great at some things made me lousy at others.” — Lou, Netflix
“If you have some level of confidence or self-belief, despite the obvious information, you really can go super far and really accomplish a lot because you have to be really resilient and work really hard.”
— Vince Vaughn, Armchair Expert: Vince Vaughn
“I think it terrifies anyone who’s intelligent to do anything.” — Katharine Hepburn, Call Me Kate, Netflix
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucious
“If you want to live a life others don’t, you have to be willing to do things others won’t do.” — Wrestlers, Netflix
“You can’t do life incorrectly. There’s just so many avenues and experiences that you can have and you never know what is out there.”
— Two Girls, One Ghost, Episode 238: Alaska’s Haunted Captain Cook Hotel
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
“Our full potential is on the other side of fear.” — Skywalkers: A Love Story, Netflix
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” — Stephen Hawking
“Impossible is nothing to somebody that tries. Everything that someone said was impossible has happened.”
— Mike Tyson, The Joe Rogan Experience, Episode No. 1227: Mike Tyson
“Podcasts, when I came, weren’t a thing. There were zero podcasts. And so I do always try to tell people, ‘You have no idea what it is you could be successful at. It might not even exist yet. Just do the work.” — Monica Padman, Armchair Expert: Jerry Seinfeld
What’s Your Favorite Motivational Quote When You Need Inspiration?
Is there a quote you always turn to when you need some extra motivation? How about a line from a podcast or movie that gets you fired up again? Tell us what it is in the comments section, or send us an email to have it included in this list!
If you have your own podcast and want to submit one of your own quotes to motivate other, feel free to do so! Just make sure you send us the name of your show and an episode timestamp where we can verify your quote to have it considered for this list!
