Friday, September 14, 2012

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 


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 


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


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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