As a writer, and just a human being in general, one thing that gives me a boost and keeps me motivated is a good quote! We all have those moments when we hear or read a good quote and we think to ourselves, "man, that was just what I needed to hear!"

Here is a list of 20 quotes to keep you inspired and to help you reach your potential:

1. Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. - Michelle Obama
2. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but their ability to empower others. - John Maxwell
3. If you don’t know what you want, then you won’t have a passion for it and you won’t strive to be great at it. – Jon Gordon
4. Keep away from your 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
5. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King
6. Always be yourself, because not much left in this world is unique, but you are. - Shannon Harris
7. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote
8. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou
9. In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It Goes On. – Robert Frost
10. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
11. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill
12. It’s not the will to win that matters…Everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. -Bear Bryant
13. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
14. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel
15. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story. - Jeff Bezos
16. The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will. - Andy Warhol
17. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Elanor Roosevelt
18. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. - Anonymous
19. There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. - Ray Goforth
20. I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman