Motivational Quotes

Dream is not what you see in sleep. It is something that does not let you sleep.
-Abdul Kalam

You cannot change your future... but, u can change ur habits... And sure ur habits
will change ur future. -Bernard Shaw

Your problem is never really your problem, your reaction to your problem is your
problem. -Brian Kinsey

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -
we must step up the stairs. -Vance Havner

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S.
Eliot

Plan your work and work your plan. -Napolean Hill

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. -William Ernest Henley

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner.
If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
-Barbara Sher

There are two primary choices in life to accept conditions as they exist, or accept
the responsibility for changing them. -Dr. Denis Waitley

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be
waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -William Jennings Bryan

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and
thinking that having problems is a problem. -Theodore Rubin

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. -
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you
are afraid to do." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
The most important product of his effort is his own personality. -Erich Fromm

To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you
are the solution. -Joe Cordare

Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. -Dan Zadra

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing
because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. -W.
Clement Stone

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly. -Stephen R. Covey

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. -William Arthur
Ward

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one
good reason why it will. -Dr. Robert

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a
lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. -Vincent J. Lombardi

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a
goal. -Francie Larrieu Smith

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or
principle contain it or stand against it. -Jane Smiley

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's
why we recommend it daily. -Zig Ziglar

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Ryun

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly
won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis
Waitley

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm,
miracles can happen. -Arland Gilbert

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer
aspects of their lives. -William James

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always
generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. -Frank Tibolt

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people
to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself--your strengths and your
limitations - in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. -Judith M. Bardwick

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but
also believe. -Anatole France

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back
and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. -Elinor Smith

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me
satisfaction. -Jawaharlal Nehru

It�s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man who says the oath.
-Aeschylus

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly
won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis
Waitley

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on
first. -Frederick B. Wilcox

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that
sustain life, not the top. -Robert M. Pirsig

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to
make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in
it. -Groucho Marx

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people
rise to meet. -William Frederick Halsy, Jr.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon
the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. -Alexander Graham
Bell

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above
all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that
this thing must be attained.--Marie Curie

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you
have, what you can accomplish. -Cecile M. Springer

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and
distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is
immense. -Thomas A. Bennett

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any
progress. -Alfred A. Montapert

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
-Warren Buffett

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in
accordance with your thinking. -Goethe

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big
things. -Robert Brault

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having
no goal to reach. -Benjamin Mays

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very
innovative. -Woody Allen

If you're made of the right material, a hard fall is bound to result in a high bounce.
It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude. -Zig Zigler

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just
fine. -Bill Vaughan

Adversities cause some men to break; others to break records. -William A. Ward
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is
what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -John
Wooden

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail.
But I like that. I need to be hated. -Howard Stern

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they
should be. Now put the foundation under them. -Henry David Thoreau

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger
is that we shall do nothing. -Adolph Monod

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
-Art Linkletter

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be
done at all. -Donald M. Nelson

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not
dare that things are difficult. -Seneca

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