Motivational Quotes

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Dr. Robert Schuller

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
Doris Lessing

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

I am the greatest!
Muhammad Ali

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 most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? 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 are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

We are what we think.
Buddha

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau

No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Jackson

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

We become what we think about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns
Intimate Connections.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace/Quintus Hortius Flaccus

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it
Author Unknown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

Things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma Gandhi

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.
Charles Austin Bates

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish Proverb

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
Thomas Jefferson

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't have any seeds
Norman Vincent Peale

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"
Richard Carlson
Writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff.

It's not the situation…… it's your reaction to the situation.
Bob Conklin

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill

If at first an idea isn't absurd there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it.
Christine Frankland

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give!
Winston Churchill

Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Seneca

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Green Hubbard

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain

Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action
David Seabury

Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Latin Proverb

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore
Rocky Marciano

When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top
Author Unknown

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.
Marianne Williamson

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Michel de Montaigne

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark Twain

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Nelson DeMille

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
Zacharty Bercovitz

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph... You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.
Charles Lynch

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy!
Author Unknown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
Emile Coue

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.
Taisen Deshimaru

Champions in any field have made a habit of doing what others find boring or uncomfortable.
Author Unknown

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Dr. Denis Waitley

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee

The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.
N. H. Moos

Your altitude is determined by your attitude.
Author Unknown

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.
Jay Sidhu

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles
Claude M. Bristol

There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandria

Faith will move mountains.
Proverb

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, but you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus

Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it.
Author Unknown

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

What you become is more important than what you accomplish.
Author Unknown

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved.
Robert H. Lauer

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.
Jill McLemore

We are new every day.
Irene Claremont de Castillego

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand