motivational quotes compilation

8/13/2019 Motivational Quotes Compilation

1/8

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can

chieve.Napoleon Hill

Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses

fe.Steve Jobs

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert

Einstein

wo roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less

raveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert

rost

he common question that gets asked in business is, why?

hats a good question, but an equally valid question is, why

ot? -Jeffrey Bezos

You miss 100% of the shots you dont take. Wayne Gretzky

ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost

lmost 300 games. 26 times Ive been trusted to take the

ame winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and

ver again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael

ordan

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe

Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all

chievement.W. Clement Stone

ife is what happens to you while youre busy making other

lans.John Lennon

We become what we think about.Earl Nightingale

wenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the

hings that you didnt do than by the ones you did do, so

hrow off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the

rade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.Mark

wain

ife is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

John Maxwell

you do what youve always done, youll get what youve

lways gotten.Tony Robbins

he mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The secon

best time is now.Chinese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living.Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up.Woody Allen

Dont wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill

Winning isnt everything, but wanting to win is. Vince

Lombardi

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of

decisions.Stephen Covey

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an

artist once he grows up.Pablo Picasso

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage

lose sight of the shore.Christopher Columbus

Ive learned that people will forget what you said, people w

forget what you did, but people will never forget how you

made them feel.Maya Angelou

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

Whether you think you can or you think you cant, youre rig

Henry Ford

The two most important days in your life are the day you ar

born and the day you find out why.Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldnes

has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe

The best revenge is massive success.Frank Sinatra

People often say that motivation doesnt last. Well, neither

does bathing. Thats why we recommend it daily.Zig Zig

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working.Pablo

Picasso

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then

all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Va

Gogh

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say

nothing, and be nothing.Aristotle

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take

your eyes off the goal.Henry Ford


2/8

he only person you are destined to become is the person

ou decide to be.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life

ou have imagined.Henry David Thoreau

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope

hat I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I

sed everything you gave me.Erma Bombeck

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help

thers. Unsuccessful people are always asking, Whats in it

or me? Brian Tracy

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that

apture the heart.Ancient Indian Proverb

Believe you can and youre halfway there. Theodore

Roosevelt

Everything youve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Addair

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the

eal tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato

Once you choose hope, anythings possible. Christopher

Reeve

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that

appiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they

sked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down

happy. They told me I didnt understand the assignment,

nd I told them they didnt understand life. John Lennon

all seven times and stand up eight.Japanese Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often

we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one

hat has been opened for us.Helen Keller

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.

Confucious

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment

efore starting to improve the world.Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao

zu

The difference between a successful person and others is

lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack o

will.Vince Lombardi

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from yo

own actions.Dalai Lama

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going

beyond them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an

objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve

your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third

adjust all your means to that end. Aristotle

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.Latin Proverb

You cant fall if you dont climb. But theres no joy in living

your whole life on the ground.Unknown

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish

much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van

Gogh

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are

living our fears.Les Brown

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming

them is what makes life meaningful.Joshua J. Marine

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing

not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we

must do.Leonardo da Vinci

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our

imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.Jamie

Paolinetti

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has n

power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You

are free.Jim Morrison

Whats money? A man is a success if he gets up in the

morning and goes to bed at night and in between does wha

he wants to do.Bob Dylan

I didnt fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin


3/8

n order to succeed, your desire for success should be

reater than your fear of failure.Bill Cosby

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything

ew.Albert Einstein

he person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt

he person who is doing it.Chinese Proverb

here are no traffic jams along the extra mile.Roger

Staubach

is never too late to be what you might have been. George

Eliot

You become what you believe.Oprah Winfrey

would rather die of passion than of boredom.Vincent van

Gogh

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when

is hands are empty.Unknown

is not what you do for your children, but what you have

aught them to do for themselves, that will make them

uccessful human beings. Ann Landers

you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as

much time with them, and half as much money. Abigail Van

Buren

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build

heirs.Farrah Gray

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

rank Zappa

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.Sir

Claus Moser

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting

more, but those giving more.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not

top.Confucius

et the refining and improving of your own life keep you so

usy that you have little time to criticize others.H. Jackson

Brown, Jr.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a

wonderful stroke of luck.Dalai Lama

You cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more y

have.Maya Angelou

Dream big and dare to fail.Norman Vaughan

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about thin

that matter.Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. Te

Roosevelt

The most common way people give up their power is by

thinking they dont have any. Alice Walker

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem

Its your place in the world; its your life. Go on and do all yo

can with it, and make it the life you want to live. Mae

Jemison

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if

you dont try. Beverly Sills

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your

consent.Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

The question isnt who is going to let me; its who is going t

stop me.Ayn Rand

When everything seems to be going against you, remembe

that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.He

Ford

Its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your

years.Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world.Norm

Vincent Peale

Either write something worth reading or do something wort

writing.Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, Im possible!

Audrey Hepburn

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Ste

Jobs

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Zig Ziglar


4/8

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny

matters compared to what lies within us.-HENRY

STANLEY HASKINS

nterpretation Your character is far more important thanyour past or your future; its who you are that matters, not

what youve done or will do.

Challenge yourself with something you know you could

never do, and what youll find is that you can overcome

anything.-ANONYMOUS

nterpretation By attempting something really difficult andoutside of your comfort zone, you will discover how

strong you really are.

It is never too late to be what you might have been. -

ANONYMOUS

nterpretation You are never too old to pursue yourdreams.

All our dreams can come trueif we have the courage to

pursue them.-WALT DISNEY

nterpretation You can have anything if you are braveenough to go after it.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.-ALAN

KAY

nterpretation Your life is not decided by fate; you mustcreate the future you want by taking the right actions now.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to

it.-CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

nterpretation What happens to you in life is not nearly asimportant as your reactions to these happenings.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great

way.-NAPOLEON HILL

nterpretation Even if you dont achieve any impressiveaccomplishments in life, it is important to do your best in

everything that you do, including the little things.

You miss 100% of the shots you dont take.-WAYNE

GRETZKY

nterpretation If you dont try, you w ill never succeed.

If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door.-MILTON

BERLE

nterpretation Dont wait for things to come to you; takyour fate into your own hands.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.-PRESCOTT

nterpretation Things that appear to be obstacles areoften helpful in the long run.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, i

not an act but a habit.

- Aristotle

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot b

striking.

- William B. Sprague

Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositio

from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

Whether you think you can or think you cant, youre rig

- Henry Ford

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we becom

- Oprah Winfrey

Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lo

almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been trusted to ta

the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over

and over and over again in my life. And that is why

succeed.

- Michael Jordan

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

What you get by achieving your goals is not as importan

as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Goethe

You can get everything in life you want if you will just he

enough other people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar
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5/8

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very

important that you do it.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope,

not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which

transcends everything.

- Napoleon Hill

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

- Truman Capote

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is

nightmare.

- Japanese Proverb

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right

thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong

thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a

chance of being a prophet.

- Isaac B. Singer

Success consists of doing the common things of life

uncommonly well.

- Unknown

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble onsomething, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I

have never heard of anyone stumbling on something

sitting down.

- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by

the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did

do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe

harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.

Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize

the rewards of success.

- Unknown

Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed

because they are determined.

- Unknown

Experience is what you get when you dont get what yo

want.

- Dan Stanford

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing

others; it is the only means.

- Albert Einstein

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of

circumstances, but rather a person with a certain se

of attitudes.

- Hugh Downs

If youre going to be able to look back on something and

laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now

- Marie Osmond

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a

destination.

- Roy Goodman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you

were worrying about one year ago today.

- E. Joseph Cossman

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny

matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of mans wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer

somebody else up.

- Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind,i

doesnt matter.

- Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,

time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition

Small people always do that, but the really great m

you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

- Richard B. Sheridan


6/8

Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the

whole staircase, just take the first step.

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Actor accept.

- Anonymous

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great

executioners are without ideas. One without the other

is worthless.

- Tim Blixseth

The world is more malleable than you think and its waiting

for you to hammer it into shape.

- Bono

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish

someone else would give you.

- Dr Phil

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to

light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very

briefly.

- Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start

thinking that they can do things. When they believe in

themselves they have the first secret of success.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn

around and lead the world.

- Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is

what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

I cant understand why people are frightened by new

ideas. Im frightened by old ones. - John Cage

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that

little extra.

- Unknown

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Unknown

Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it.

Really successful people do things when they dont

want to do it.

- Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditio

as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changi

them.

- Dr. Denis Waitley

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure withou

losing your enthusiasm.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successfu

people keep moving. They make mistakes but don

quit.

- Conrad Hilton

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.

- Unknown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you ca

do.

- John Wooden

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figu

out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

- Mario Cuomo

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they

can.

- Richard Bach

Vision doesnt usually come as a lightening bolt. Rathe

comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges th

we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with

great value to ourselves and others.

- Dr. Michael Norwood

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start

thinking of yourself as a success.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again

Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett


7/8

Flops are a part of lifes menu and Ive never been a girl to

miss out on any of the courses.

- Rosalind Russell

Cause Change & Lead

Accept Change & Survive

Resist Change & Die

Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep

losing but youre still trying, keep it up! Youre right on

track.

- Matthew Keith Groves

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent

that rubs against it.

- Bill Bernbach

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

- Prescott

Life is trying things to see if they work

Ray Bradbury

If you worry about yesterdays failures, then todays

successes will be few.

Anonymous

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to

it.

Dennis P. Kimbro

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of

discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which

there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all

opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not

enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In matters of style, swim with the current;

in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times,

the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be

great.

Machiavelli.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It come

from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

You are what you think about all day long. Dr. Rob

Schuller

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what y

say Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not to be measured by the position someon

has reached in life, but the obstacles he has

overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of t

world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first th

you have to do is wake up.

- J.M. Power

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventua

get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

- Robert Frost

Ive learned that no matter what happens, or how bad

seems today, life does go on, and it will be better

tomorrow.

- Maya Angelou

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to

overlook.

- William James

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always

tempted to ask, Compared to what?

- Sydney Harris

Dont let life discourage you; everyone who got where

is had to begin where he was.

- Richard L. Evans


8/8

In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about

life: It goes on.

- Robert Frost

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every

experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

- Seneca

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

- Peter Drucker.

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the

fault finders.

- Fosters Law

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

- Joe Clark

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything

else.

- Winston Churchill

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

- Elbert Hubbard

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a

confession of character.


Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

- Swedish Proverb

If youre going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no

curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all

evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.


Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.- Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I

feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and

everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of

thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I

can escape from enduring habits.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

There is no education like adversity.

- Disraeli

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

- Author Unknown

Reader contributions:

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen.

- Bar Rafaeli

If youve got it. use it. If you dont gotit, then get it!

- Reader submitted

Son, if you dont have time to do it right, when will you have ti

to redo it?

- Readers grandfather said this, and I LOVE IT

Faith held solely is the begining of action.

- Reader submitted

Positivity is all about overlooking the negetive fact.

- Reader submitted

Life is all about up and doing.

- Reader submitted

You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man

- Reader submitted

Life is not about ALL the wrong moves you made, Life is abou

the one right move that made ALL the difference.

- James Lockhart

Be humble enough to admit youre not perfect, but determine

enough to strive to be perfect.

- Babsie Burke (reader)

If you cant sleep do not count the sheep, worship the Shephe

- Babsie Burke (reader)

Life is a journey, its not a race. Walk through it.

- Reader submitted

Everything happens for a reason, you only need to keep on

editing your attitude and gratitude so as to sail through.

- Reader submitted

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have

- Reader submitted (I really like this one, thanks Sandiso

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