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Quotes with tag Motivational:

Author	Quote	Rank
Robert H. Schuller	Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.	37
Mark Twain	The secret of getting ahead is getting started.	43
Simone de Beauvoir	Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.	54
Samuel Beckett	Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.	60
Aldous Huxley	There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.	70
Franklin D. Roosevelt	When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.	98
Aristotle	Quality is not an act, it is a habit.	101
Eleanor Roosevelt	With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.	101
Walt Disney	If you can dream it, you can do it.	101
Ayn Rand	A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.	101
Elon Musk	When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.	101
Florence Nightingale	I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.	101
George S. Patton	Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.	101
Nikos Kazantzakis	In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.	101
Thomas A. Edison	Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.	101
Tony Robbins	Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.	101
Woodrow Wilson	You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.	101
Amelia Earhart	The most effective way to do it, is to do it.	101
Charles R. Swindoll	Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.	101
Og Mandino	Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.	101
Zig Ziglar	What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.	101
Alfred A. Montapert	Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.	101
Allen Ginsberg	Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.	101
Arthur Ashe	Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.	101
Bo Jackson	Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.	101
Bobby Knight	The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.	101
Bradley Whitford	Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.	101
Carl von Clausewitz	Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.	101
Daniel Webster	There is always room at the top.	101
Dieter F. Uchtdorf	We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.	101
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	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.	101
Flip Wilson	You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.	101
George Lucas	You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.	101
George Whitefield	Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.	101
Gordon B. Hinckley	Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.	101
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.	101
Herbert A. Simon	One finds limits by pushing them.	101
Joan of Arc	I am not afraid... I was born to do this.	101
John Burroughs	Leap, and the net will appear.	101
Norman Ralph Augustine	Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.	101
Ralph Marston	What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.	101
Sam Levenson	Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.	101
St. Jerome	Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.	101
Ted Turner	You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.	101
Victor Kiam	Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.	101
Charlotte Whitton	When one must, one can.	101
Eileen Caddy	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.	101
Eliza Dushku	Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?	101
Henry Drummond	The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.	101
Michael Korda	One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.	101
Natalie Gulbis	When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.	101
Philip Emeagwali	The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.	101
Philip Sidney	Either I will find a way, or I will make one.	101
Walter Elliot	Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.	101
Benjamin Jowett	Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.	101
Diane Sawyer	Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.	101
Dominique Dawes	I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.	101
H. L. Hunt	Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.	101
Ken Venturi	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.	101
Louise Mensch	I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.	101
Pauline Kael	Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.	101
Mark Caine	The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.	101
Persius	He conquers who endures.	101
Sasha Cohen	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.	101
Charles Atlas	Step by step and the thing is done.	101
James Rollins	The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.	101
Judy Collins	I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.	101
Andy Andrews	I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.	101
Confucius	It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.	102
Nelson Mandela	It always seems impossible until it's done.	102
Theodore Roosevelt	Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.	102
Walt Disney	The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.	102
Epictetus	The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.	102
George S. Patton	A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.	102
John Dewey	Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.	102
Norman Vincent Peale	Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.	102
Rabindranath Tagore	You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.	102
Stephen Hawking	Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.	102
Thomas Paine	The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.	102
William James	Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.	102
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.	102
Og Mandino	Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.	102
W. Clement Stone	Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.	102
Baltasar Gracian	Know or listen to those who know.	102
Carol Burnett	Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.	102
Daniel H. Pink	Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.	102
Helen Rowland	You will never win if you never begin.	102
Jimmy Dean	Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.	102
Julie Andrews	Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.	102
Keke Palmer	Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.	102
Kyle Chandler	Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.	102
Peter Marshall	Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.	102
Pope John XXIII	Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.	102
Richard Rorty	There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.	102
Rupert Murdoch	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.	102
Tina Brown	Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.	102
William Hazlitt	The more we do, the more we can do.	102
John W. Gardner	True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.	102
Robert Henri	Do whatever you do intensely.	102
Montel Williams	My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.	102
Dan Millman	I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.	102
Justin Zackham	One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.	102
Marianne Vos	I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.	102
Confucius	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.	103
Lao Tzu	Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.	103
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.	103
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.	103
Saint Teresa of Avila	Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.	103
Virgil	They can conquer who believe they can.	103
John D. Rockefeller	If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.	103
Og Mandino	Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.	103
Sophocles	Who seeks shall find.	103
Tom Stoppard	Every exit is an entry somewhere else.	103
Don Miguel Ruiz	Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.	103
Donna Brazile	I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.	103
Jack London	You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.	103
John Burroughs	If you think you can do it, you can.	103
Matthew Henry	After a storm comes a calm.	103
Jim Elliot	Wherever you are - be all there.	103
Leo Durocher	I come to win.	103
Shakti Gawain	You create your opportunities by asking for them.	103
Anupam Kher	I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.	103
Edgar Cayce	There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!	103
Sylvia Browne	The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.	103
Jessica Savitch	No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.	103
Amy Waldman	Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.	103
J. R. Martinez	I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.	103
Dalai Lama	Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.	104
Helen Keller	Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.	104
Maya Angelou	We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.	104
Winston Churchill	Never, never, never give up.	104
Leo Buscaglia	Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.	104
Les Brown	You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.	104
Wayne Dyer	Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.	104
William Blake	No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.	104
Babe Ruth	You just can't beat the person who never gives up.	104
Christopher Morley	Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.	104
George C. Marshall	Don't fight the problem, decide it.	104
Tecumseh	From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.	104
Unknown	The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.	104
Young Jeezy	As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.	104
Marvin Sapp	Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.	104
Emanuel Steward	I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.	104
Muhammad Ali	I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.	105
Thomas A. Edison	There's a way to do it better - find it.	105
Albert Schweitzer	Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.	105
Woody Hayes	Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.	105
John Burroughs	A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.	105
Oliver Herford	Many are called but few get up.	105
Peter Steele	I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.	105
Robert H. Schuller	I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.	105
Cicely Tyson	You never know what motivates you.	105
Emile Zola	If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.	105
Benjamin Disraeli	Never complain and never explain.	106
William James	Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.	106
Golda Meir	The dog that trots about finds a bone.	106
J. D. Salinger	How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?	106
Mia Hamm	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.	106
Simone Weil	I can, therefore I am.	106
Thomas Fuller	One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.	106
Beverly Sills	I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.	106
Dean Koontz	I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.	106
Benjamin Franklin	By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.	107
Jim Rohn	Either you run the day or the day runs you.	107
Elbert Hubbard	Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.	107
Lauren Bacall	I am not a has-been. I am a will be.	107
Lenny Kravitz	People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.	107
Leonard Mlodinow	Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.	107
Nelson Mandela	There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.	108
Jim Rohn	If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.	108
Denis Diderot	You have to make it happen.	108
Ezra Pound	Either move or be moved.	108
Herman Cain	One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.	108
Orison Swett Marden	A will finds a way.	108
Tiffany Trump	I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.	108
Benjamin Franklin	Well done is better than well said.	109
Thomas Jefferson	Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.	109
Henry Ford	You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.	109
Oprah Winfrey	Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.	109
Brian Tracy	I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.	109
George Herbert	Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.	109
Hubert H. Humphrey	Never give in and never give up.	109
Lucille Ball	The more things you do, the more you can do.	109
Stevie Wonder	If you don't ask, you don't get.	109
Unknown	You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.	109
Winston Churchill	If you're going through hell, keep going.	110
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.	110
Jim Rohn	If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.	110
William Butler Yeats	Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.	110
Christopher Reeve	Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.	110
Edward Norton	I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.	110
Jim Carrey	If you've got a talent, protect it.	110
Octavio Paz	Deserve your dream.	110
Orison Swett Marden	We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.	111
H. G. Wells	If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.	112
Khloe Kardashian	I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.	112
Norman Cousins	Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.	112
Jim Rohn	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.	113
Napoleon Hill	A goal is a dream with a deadline.	113
William Wordsworth	To begin, begin.	113
Horace	Don't think, just do.	113
Carl Sandburg	To be a good loser is to learn how to win.	114
Phillips Brooks	Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.	114
John F. Kennedy	Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.	115
Aeschylus	God always strives together with those who strive.	116
Rose Kennedy	I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.	116
John Donne	Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.	117
Katharine Hepburn	We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.	118
Muhammad Iqbal	The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.	119
Robert Louis Stevenson	To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.	120
Denis Waitley	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.	122
Dale Carnegie	If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.	123
Young Jeezy	I'm a motivational speaker.	123
Epictetus	Only the educated are free.	124
Norman Vincent Peale	It's always too early to quit.	124
Swami Sivananda	Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.	124
George S. Patton	You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.	125
Sophocles	Always desire to learn something useful.	125
Drew Barrymore	Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.	126
Baruch Spinoza	Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.	201
Wayne Dyer	Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.	205
Theodore Roosevelt	Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.	207
Ralph Waldo Emerson	We aim above the mark to hit the mark.	210
Baltasar Gracian	The wise does at once what the fool does at last.	211
Thomas Jefferson	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.	216
Martin Luther King, Jr.	The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'	224
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Hitch your wagon to a star.	224
Malala Yousafzai	It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.	302
Khalil Gibran	March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.	307
Albert Camus	To know oneself, one should assert oneself.	312
Confucius	The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.	314
Zig Ziglar	Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.	412
Henry David Thoreau	What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.	502

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