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Motivational Quotes
Nourish your motivation with these powerful quotes and go out there and achieve your goals! Motivational Quotes IndexAbout Motivation"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." "Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished." "You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated." "When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything." "Motivation comes from within." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Be Industrious"Success is dependent upon glands – sweat glands." "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." "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." "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." "The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work." "It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Believe in Yourself"Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do." "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." "One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests." "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Choose Your Destiny"We are still masters of our fate. "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." "There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves." "We make the world we live in and shape our own environment." "There are only 2 choices; make progress or make excuses." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Do It Now!"Just do it.™ " "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." "The wise does at once what the fool does at last." "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." "If not us, who? If not now, when?" "What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." "The future depends on what we do in the present." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Dream Big"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." "If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Focus"The sun's energy warms the world. But when you focus it through a magnifying glass, it can start a fire. Focus is powerful." "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser focus." "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Goals"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." "You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals." "The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Good Advice
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." "Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do." "The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name." "Strive for progress, not perfection" "Clear your mind of can't." "If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot." "Decide what you want, believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it’s possible for you." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there." "You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." "Visualize the thing you want. See it, feel it, believe it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." "You may have to travel on a different road, but as long as you arrive at your destination, that’s all that matters." "The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Hope"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." "If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes How to Fuel Motivation"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." "Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Importance of Goals"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." "No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one." "One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Insightful"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." "I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ." "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." "One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low" "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." "A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer." "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." "Fear is what stops you... courages is what keeps you going." "It's not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not." "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "You only ever grow as a human being if you’re outside your comfort zone." "Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible." "First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you." "Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner." "Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations." "A limit on what you will do, puts a limit on what you can do." "The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Inspirational"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." "Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future." "If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow." "We will either find a way, or make one!" "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't 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." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes It's never too late to become what you might have been. "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it." "Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe." "If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page." "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us." "No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change." "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Keys to Motivation"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." "Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life." "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." "You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it." "Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Keys to Success"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." "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." "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". "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." "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." "To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life." "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Motivation for Dieters"If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution." "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels." "If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner." "The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life." "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." "I believe in giving rewards and positive reinforcement for a job well done, but can we raise ourselves a little higher than the dogs and give rewards that have longer-term benefits? How can a poor food choice be a true reward anyway?" "Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." "Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket." "More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "One should eat to live, not live to eat." "When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!" "Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'" "Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends." "Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!" "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets." "Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks." "Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat." "To lengthen your life, shorten your meals." "Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts." "The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity." "Your body is a temple, not a drive-through." "We never repent of having eaten too little." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Motivation in Adversity"Men's best successes come after their disappointments." "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." "When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder." "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." "It is surmounting difficulties, that makes heroes." "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." "Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it." "There is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It is not about speed or gold medals. It is about refusing to be stopped." "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." "You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Motivation to Exercise"Exercise is also a powerful way to switch on endorphins or 'happy chemicals' that are naturally produced in our bodies. Even a brisk walk does the job, so simple decisions such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator can instantly change our mood and perspective." "You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is." "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." "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." "Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat." "Commit to be fit." "Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." "Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it." "Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase." "There are really only two requirements when it comes to exercise. One is that you do it. The other is that you continue to do it." "Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." "A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs." "It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes No Excuses"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein." "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." "Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Perseverance"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." "The best way out is always through." "Never, never, never quit." "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." "It's always too early to quit." "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." "The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Persistence"You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win." "So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win." "Constant dripping hollows out a stone." "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Perspective"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward." "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." "We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Positive Mental Attitude"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes. "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." "Start listening to what you say. Are your comments and ideas negative? You aren't going become positive if you always say negative things. Do you hear yourself say 'I could never do that', 'I never have any luck', 'I never get things right'. Wow - that's negative self-talk! Try saying 'I am going to do that', 'I am so lucky' 'I always try to get things right'. Can you hear how much better that sounds? "The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." "You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Proverbs"Where there's a will there's a way." "Storms make oaks take roots." "He who hesitates is lost." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Success Takes Time"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." "Begin to be now what you will be hereafter." "All great achievements require time." "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Take Action"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." "Leap, and the net will appear." "You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Return to Index of Motivational Quotes "You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine." "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." "To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." "You can’t cross a sea by standing and staring at the water." "If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't sit back and hope it will happen. You’ve got to make it happen." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Take Initiative"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." "If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence." "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door." "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." Return to Index of Motivational Quotes You Can Do It"If you can dream it, you can do it." "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." "If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen." "I Will! I will get through this ... I will put this behind me ... I will move forward stronger ... I Will!" Return to Index of Motivational Quotes Return to Life Quotes - from Motivational Quotes
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It's not the date you were born, or the date you died, that really matters. It's "the dash" between those years and what you do with it, to make a difference with your life.
