Motivational quotes

It ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth-Rocky Balboa

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar

Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish-John Quincy Adams

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within-Romana L. Anderson

There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to dream is now. The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you want most is now-Anonymous

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going-Anonymous

I am the lizard king. I can do anything-Jim Morrison

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best-Akeem Olajuwon

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher strates. The great teacher inspires.-William Arthur Ward -William Arthur Ward

No one does anything from a single motive.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn-Harriet Beecher Stowe

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.-Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'-Carrie Fisher

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.-Donald Laird

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'-Carrie Fisher

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.-Dwight D. Eisenhower


The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.-Richard L. Evans

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.-Richard L. Evans

Who dares, wins.-Anonymous

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.-Richard L. Evans

Always do what you are afraid to do.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.-Irish Blessing

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.-Harriet Braiker

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream>-Les Brown

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.-Lido Anthony Lee Lacocca

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.-Roy E. Moody

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me-Ashleigh Brilliant

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.-Peter Davies

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.-George-Louis De Buffon

I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.-John Robinson

A life without cause is a life without effect-Barbarella

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.-Gerry Sikorski

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.-Harriet Braiker

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.-Adel Bestavros

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.-Carol Burnett
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back.-Anonymous

...if the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent.-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.-Joseph Joubert

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.-J.C.F. von Schiller

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.-Francie Larrieu Smith

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it?-George Eliot

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.-Russel Green

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.-Ken Gilbert

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.-Stephen Covey

The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.-Hugh Stevenson Tigner

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually-Stephen Covey

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.-Stephen Covey

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.-Ken Gilbert

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.-Stephen Covey

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!-Dr. Seuss

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.-Zadok Rabinwitz

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually-Stephen Covey

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.-Dr. Seuss

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'-Stephen Covey

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.-Frank A. Clark

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.-Stephen Covey

LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE TO LIVE-ANIL GUPTA

If you can calculate the risk you can obviously measure the result.-Narahari Rao

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.-Stephen Covey

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.-Stephen Covey

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People-Stephen Covey

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.-Stephen Covey

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.-W. M. L. Jay

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!-Bob Richards
When the administrator feels himself to be the sole driving agency, and finds himself chiefly engaged in arousing those who apathetic and coercing those who are antagonistic, there is something vitally wrong with the administration. An executive should find himself engaged chiefly in directing the energies which create themselves naturally in all parts of the business, and in finding the proper outlet for the eager upward striving of the ranks below.-E.E. Jones

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.-Thomas Jefferson

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups-Peter Davies

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!-Max Schmelling

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.-Thomas Jefferson

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

No one does anything from a single motive.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.-Francie Larrieu Smith

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.-Henry David Thoreau