Motivational quotes

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen." — Wayne Dyer

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." — Denis Waitley

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. — Richard M. DeVos

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that." — Earl Nightingale

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." — Tom Blandi "The first step to becoming is to will it." — Mother Teresa

"This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything. " — Scott Reed

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." — Friedrich Nietzsche

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin. " — Robert Collier

"Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket. " — Andrew Carnegie

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." — Henry David Thoreau

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. " — John D. Rockefeller

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. " — Richard M. DeVos

"What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. " — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. " — Orison Swett Marden

"Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. " — Dr. David Burns

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." — John Milton

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself. " — Ethel Barrymore

"The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food. " — Rhoda Morgenstern

"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. " — Erma Bombeck

"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it." — Jim Rohn

"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

"Forewarned, forearmed, is to be prepared is half the victory." — Miguel de Cervantes

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. " — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. " — John Maxwell

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. " — Rabindranath Tagore

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you. " — Anwar Sadat

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." — Marcus Aurelius

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down." — Mary Pickford

"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. " — Harold Ruopp

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It is courage that counts. " — George F. Tilton

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience had brought it home." — John Stuart Mill

"Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped." — James Corbett

"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.." — Mark Victor Hansen

"Do a little more each day than you think you can." — Lowell Thomas

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. " — Mohandas Gandhi

"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 S. Truman

"When you believe you can-you can!" — Maxwell Maltz

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them. " — Stephen Covey

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find that it simply means to follow through." — F. W. Nichol

"I am an irresistible magnet, with the power to attract unto myself everything that I divinely desire, according to the thoughts, feelings and mental pictures I constantly entertain and radiate. I am the center of my universe! I have the power to create whatever I wish. I attract whatever I radiate. I attract whatever I mentally choose and accept. I begin choosing and mentally accepting the highest and best in life. I now choose and accept health, success and happiness. I now choose lavish abundance for myself and for all mankind. This is a rich, friendly universe and I dare to accept its riches, its hospitality, and to enjoy them now!" — Catherine Ponde

"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others... but to get ahead of ourselves." — Thomas L. Monson

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. " — Jacob A. Riis

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us ... we would all be millionaires. " — Abigail Van Buren

"The obstacles that others put in our path can be pushed aside in any number of ways. The obstacles that you put in your own way can be removed only by the same hands. " — Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. " — Buddha

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can." — The Dalai Lama

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