Motivational Quotes

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama

 
After a storm comes a calm.
Matthew Henry

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Swami Sivananda

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn

 

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy

Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Agatha Christie

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller

Who seeks shall find.
Sophocles

Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

Only the educated are free.
Epictetus

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda

If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Carl Sandburg

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Jim Rohn

Wherever you are - be all there.
Jim Elliot

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Golda Meir

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammed Iqbal

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
John W. Gardner

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Dean Koontz

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis

You never know what motivates you.
Cicely Tyson

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight

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