Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes



"Never waste the chance to say 'I love you' because this chance might never come again."

---Unknown


"I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."

---Harry Truman


"You are a superhero to someone. So act like one. Someone is watching."

---GNC commercial


"If we wait to foil a bank robbery or rescue someone tied on the railroad tracks we will never be a hero. We probably won't even come across a cat stuck in a tree. As long as we sit at the bus stop waiting for our great moment we will miss our real chance at the heroic: the infinite number of tiny daily acts inspired by the great. Our actions may seem insignificant, but their results will grow and multiply."

---Timberland boots


"You don't have to be a famous person just to make your mark."

---No Doubt, "Different People"


"I want you to know, everyone's got to face down the demons, maybe today. We can put the past away."

---Third Eye Blind, "Jumper"


"Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away."

---Mariah Carey, "Hero"


"You don't know what you have 'til your everything is gone. You need someone to show you how to live again."

---Blessid Union of Souls, "I Wanna Be There"


"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common."

---Satchel Paige


"I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else."

---Arthur Ashe


"All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen."

---Seth Godin


"Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge." ---Carmelia Elliot


"If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink."

---Romans 12:20


"It doesn't take strength to hold a grudge; it takes strength to let go of one."

---Jesse (John Stamos), Full House


"Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy--and then just listen to what they say."

---Dave Joyner


"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

---Unknown


"Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars--but you may get the moon."

---Carlton Young


"For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been.'"

---John Greenleaf Whittier


"Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do."

---No Time to Cry by Lurlene McDaniel


"A successful life doesn't require that we've done the best, but that we've done our best."

---H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


"I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again."

---William Penn


"If you love the life you live, you will live a life of love."

---Unknown


"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression."

---Unknown


"All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign."

---Dan Pursuit


"An open mind opens doors."

---Unknown


"Above all else, never think you're not good enough."

---Anthony Trollope


"Do what you will, always."

---Dave Matthews Band


"Think happy thoughts and you can fly."

---Peter Pan


"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible."

---Unknown


"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail."

---Muriel Strade


"At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored."

---Nathan C. Schaeffer


"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

---Robert F. Kennedy


"I would rather make my name than inherit it."

---W.M. Thackeray


"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be."

---Abraham Lincoln


"You have to dance like no one is watching, and love like it's never gonna hurt."

---Unknown


"Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate."

---Ella Wheeler Wilcox


"Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn."

---Unknown


"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

---Henry David Thoreau


"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do!"

---Walter Bagehot


"You can sit around and wait for the good things to happen to you, or you can go out and make them happen."

---Unknown


"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

---Taylor Benson


"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst thing is not to try."

---Unknown


"Failure is the path of least persistence."

---Unknown


"Patience is counting down without blasting off."

---Unknown


"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

---Will Rogers


"We must conquer war or war will conquer us."

---Ely Culbertson


"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're

---Albert Brooks


"Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success."

---Michael Eisner


"The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have."

---Carol Clurman


"Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice."

---Robert Orben


"There are no speed limits on the road to excellence."

---David Johnson


"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."

---Tobias Wolff


"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing."

---George Sheehan


"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

---Clarence Thomas


"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by."

---Annie Dillard


"Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up."

---Dave Weinbaum


"The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat."

---A.J. Cronin


"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."

---Michael Landon


"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

---William Osler


"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

---Unknown


"It may be that those who do most, dream most."

---Stephen Leacock


"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be." ---Jimmy Johnson



"The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them."

---James Oliver


"I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

---Goethe


"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

---J.M. Power


"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

---W. Somerset Maugham


"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

---Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."

---William Arthur Ward


Go the extra mile. It's never crowded."

---Executive Speechwriter Newsletter


"When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in."

---Aeschylus


"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

---James Baldwin


"Every problem is just an opportunity waiting to be made use of."

---Unknown


"I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be."

---Sandra Bullock
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