Life can be terribly hard sometimes. It gets so hard you just want to pull up the covers in the morning, burrow deeper into your mattress, and run away from it all. This is precisely why showing up is such a big deal. Being the first step to success, it can be the most difficult step there is because your mind, your body, or your spirit would rather be elsewhere.
But take heart! The moment you show up, things start rolling from there. If you need further motivation to be present especially during life-changing moments, here is a carefully curated list of the most inspirational quotes on showing up.
If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you’re showing up for. – Woody Allen
The world is run by those who show up. – Ron Nehring
What’s wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion – it’s actually an okay thing. It’s okay to be ambitious; it’s okay to be over-prepared. – Jessica Chastain
Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
Life is about putting forth your best effort and showing up. When you show up to the gig fearlessly and put forth your best, who knows what could come of it? – Shangela
When it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore. – Rebecca Walker
To me, self-care isn’t really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life. – Jonathan Van Ness
I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers. – Paul Schneider
Anyone can show up when you’re happy. But the ones who stay by your side when your heart falls apart. They are your true friends. – Brigitte Nicole
I want make sure I’m showing up for the people I’m really close to and my family, and so finding a balance is really important. But I don’t want to quit drag at all. I want to be 90 years old and I want them to prop me up in the doorway and have hot dudes dance around me like Mae West. I really do! – Alaska
Showing up is like 90 percent of the battle, and just make sure your hair is really cute. – Willam Belli
Showing up is not all of life – but it counts for a lot. – Hillary Clinton
Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren’t looking for it and didn’t plan on it. – Adriana Trigiani
Discipline is showing up even when you’re feeling miserable.
No matter how you feel… Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think. – Brené Brown
Just show up and things will happen. – Mother Teresa
Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do. – Alaric Hutchinson
Just keep showing up when most people quit.
Showing up in the lives of children is everything. – Greg Boyle
Show up in every single moment like you’re meant to be there.
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do. – Alaric Hutchinson
It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for ‘showing up’ and embodying the message. – Greg Boyle
No matter how many obstacles we face from birth—the outcome of letting loose love and showing up marks humankind— for success wins human equality, discretely. – Kamini Arichandran
I can’t thank you enough for showing up. It’s not the same without you. – James Taylor
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey. – Becky Sauerbrunn
Things will only improve when the people – all of us – say to authorities, ‘I will hold you responsible.’ We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization. – Erin Brockovich
Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is. – Simon Sinek
Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they’ll have a lot to show you. – Austin Klean
Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful. – Jeff Olson
To stay on the map you’ve got to keep showing up. – Peter Gallagher
I make 50 cents for showing up… and the other 50 cents is based on my performance. – Steve Jobs
You can pretend to care, but you can’t pretend to show up. – George L. Bell
Just trying to do something – just being there, showing up – is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing. – Joy Browne
The formula for success is 2% talent, 8% luck, and 90% of showing up every day. – Jeffrey Fry
That’s when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn’t the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn’t enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn’t enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn’t. Not enough. – Jenny Han
No matter what role you play in a meeting, how you show up in that role is critical to the meeting’s success. – Emily M. Axelrod
It’s better to show up than to give up. – Bernie Sanders
There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job. – Tituss Burgess
Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard – Laurie Buchanan, PhD
If you don’t make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present. – Wayne Dyer
Eighty percent of showing up for life is ninety percent exaggerated. – Brian Spellman
Decisions are made by those who show up. – Aaron Sorkin
Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing. – Michael Chiesa
The energy we show up with is more often than not the energy we encounter. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
Showing up every day isn’t enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn’t have showed up at all. – James Caan
Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day. – Regina Brett
Champions don’t show up to get everything they want; they show up to give everything they have.
The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real – I call that “knowing laughter.” That’s what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we’re alone in anything. – Brené Brown
You won’t get much done in life if you only show up when you feel good.
A man shows up. For himself and others. He doesn’t run, he doesn’t pass the buck, he shows up. And when he is hurt, or when he has done wrong, or has made his own mistake — a man shows up. For himself and others. – Drue Grit
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. – Chuck Close
Confidence is like show up in every single moment like you’re meant to be there.
Whether you like me or you don’t, I still dig showing up for work. – John Cena
Show up: Messy. Show up: Imperfect. But just keep showing up. – Jenna Kutcher
Don’t mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough. – Tommy Amaker
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. – Robert Fulghum
Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. – Robert Breault
Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go! – Marie Forleo
Anyone can show up when you’re happy. But the ones who stay by your side when your heart falls apart. They are your true friends. – Brigitte Nicole
Recognize and reward people for excellence, not for just showing up. – Frank Sonnenberg
My students have shown me so many times that it’s not always about being the perfect person in the perfect position – it’s about showing up when you’re needed. – Jill Biden
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two. – Tony Snow
If I’m not happy with how someone is showing up, I can only be honest and hope that my feelings resonate and inspire a deeper look into oneself. – Stacy Keibler
No matter how you feel today, dress up and show up. – Paulo Coelho
Showing up is most of life’s success! – Dr. Mansur Hasib
Showing up is important and it is a big part of becoming successful. – Andy Albright
Half the battle is just showing up. – Stephen Hawking
Attendance means nothing, bodies are not minds. – A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
Show up authentically and synergy will meet you there. – Sanjo Jendayi
How you choose to show up magnetizes what shows up for you.
And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. – Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen. – Brené Brown
The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time. – Brené Brown