Enduring Cool Quotes for Continuous Motivation

"Cool" can mean fashionable, impressive, calm, approving, or indifferent depending on context. It might denote being trendy, admirable, composed, in agreement, or nonchalant.

Cool Quotes

1. “Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.”
— Smiley Blanton

2. “You use your words carefully to uplift and inspire.”
— Robin Roberts

3. “Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.”
— Dalai Lama

4. “If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”
— Amy Tan

5. “Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
— George Eliot

6. “I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”
— Richard Nixon

7. “Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”
— Charles Kettering

8. “Yet you can’t learn to be cool, it’s more a personality trait.”
— Joeri Van Den Bergh

9. “If you think you’re not cool enough, you will never be cool enough.”
— Romy Miller

10. “From a distance, he looks like the coolest of dudes. He even gives the impression that he’d be doing you a favor if you pulled over and picked him up.”
— William Loizeaux

11. “Those who think it is not cool to be kind are cold hearted.”
— Catherine Pulsifer

12. “If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.”
— Cher

13. “Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

14. “Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.”
— Vanessa Hudgens

15. “You need to understand something that will liberate your life: You don’t need other people’s approval to be happy.”
— Rick Warren

16. “Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.”
— Chinese Proverbs

17. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. It all comes down to what you do today.”
— John C. Maxwell

18. “A day with you,
Was always so cool.
I loved to just,
Hang around.”
— Julie Hebert

19. “Sometimes one day changes everything; sometimes years change nothing.”
— Irish Saying

20. “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
— Confucius

21. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
— Helen Keller

22. “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
— John Wooden

23. “You cannot change the world, But you can present the world with one improved person – Yourself.”
— Brian Tracy

24. “It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.”
— Zig Ziglar

25. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
— Maya Angelou

26. “Our western European thought of retirement and pension has to be broken against all odds. Because it is a false myth that happiness comes from 65 years ‘retires’.”
— Ben Friedland

27. “If you hear a kind word spoken
Of some worthy soul you know,
It may fill his heart with sunshine
If you’d only tell him so.”
— Author Unknown

28. “Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence.”
— Vince Lombardi

29. “Worry never climbed a hill.
Worry never paid a bill.
Worry never dried a tear.
Worry never calmed a fear.”
— Eleanor H Porter

30. “Pass the test of being grateful for the small things and big things will be released in your life.”
— Joel Osteen

31. “You don’t have to be the biggest, the richest, the most famous, the coolest, the fastest, the most intelligent to stand out – you’ve just got to be different.”
— Jeff Paul Smith

32. “The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.”
— Nelson Boswell

33. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
— Gandhi

34. “My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.”
— Ashton Eaton

35. “If you reach for a star, you might not get one. But you won’t come up with a hand full of mud either.”
— Leo Burnett

36. “The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.”
— George Orwell

37. “Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on.”
— Paulo Coelho

38. “If you run out of ideas follow the road; you’ll get there.”
— Edgar Allan Poe

39. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone else in the world. If you do so you are insulting yourself.”
— Bill Gates

40. “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
— Ray Kroc

41. “Stop flogging yourself over the past mistakes and hurtful memories of the past.”
— Kellie Sullivan

42. “When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.”
— Dale Carnegie

43. “Try walking forward while looking over your shoulder and see how far you get. The same goes for life. Look forward!”
— Martin Henderson

44. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
— Norman Vincent Peale

45. “Thoughts become the experiences you live.”
— Iyanla Vanzant

46. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
— Duke Ellington

47. “Practice does some cool things to the brain, too. Knowing what the brain requires for solid, long-term learning will help you get better at music, or anything else.”
— Jonathan Harnum

48. “I read somewhere that if you pray for rain. . . don’t complain about the mud!”
— Hyacinth Mottley

49. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
— Henry Ford

50. “Most arguments are not really disagreements but are rather little ego battles and misunderstandings.”
— Stephen Covey

51. “If you think you can kind of chill out, start coasting; look, you are sadly mistaken.”
— Eric Thomas

52. “What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing.”
— Jamie Foxx

53. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
— E. e. cummings

54. “Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.”
— Vanessa Hudgens

55. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci

56. “The goal of being more productive in daily tasks is to have MORE time to be NON-PRODUCTIVE.”
— Tara Ross

57. “Your character defines who you are by the actions you take.”
— Catherine Pulsifer

58. “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
— Harold Kushner

59. “Don’t take life too serious. You’ll never escape it alive anyway.”
— Elbert Hubbard

60. “Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
— Aristotle

61. “You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.”
— Earl Nightingale

62. “Cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better!”
— Anne Frank

63. “You can live feeling like God owes you an explanation or you can live realizing God has given you great gifts.”
— Tom Holladay

64. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
— Pablo Picasso

65. “The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.”
— Seneca

66. “Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
— Nicky Gumbel

67. “Ideas without action are worthless.”
— Harvey Mackay

68. “Action without a plan is called failure. Action with a plan is called success.”
— Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

69. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
— Napoleon Hill

70. “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”
— Woody Allen

71. “Self control refers to controlling one’s emotions and feelings and not losing one’s cool even in the worst of situations.”
— Brian Adams

72. “I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
— Margaret Mead

73. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore

74. “We’ve found that love, like a sharp sword, had to be forged through the furnace and survive the cooling periods so as not to become brittle and break like so many other marriages have. It’s through those up and down experiences that love is made perfect.”
— Glenn S. Adams

75. “I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.”
— Helen Keller

76. “Your character is formed by the challenges you face and overcome.”
— Nick Vujicic

77. “We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
— Rudyard Kipling