Motivational Quotes
Motivational Sayings (9)
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
Related topics: Perseverance
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown
Every moment wasted looking back
keeps us from moving forward.
- Hilary Clinton
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
- Harvey McKay
When I Come To The Edge of the Familiar,
I Spread My Wings and Fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
I Dream with Powerful Intention -
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition
to deliver powerful visions of my inspired future,
and I empower my intent to transform those visions into reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
What you dream, you can create.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
I Paint My Life In Bold Colors.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy
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