Motivational Quotes

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.      — Rumi

Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things,but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.,
Jim Rohn

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going ,
Napoleon Hill

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself,
James Allen

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose,
John Kehoe

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the
ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.,
Anthony Robbins

The secret of getting ahead is getting started,
Mark Twain

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not
me? Why not now?,
James Allen

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way.
Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past,
Brian Tracy

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail,
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for
something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how
really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with
your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.,
Earl Nightingale

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither
enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that
knows neither victory nor defeat.,
Theodore Roosevelt

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

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.,
Napoleon Bonaparte

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore.
Dream.
Discover.,
Mark Twain

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them
into the impossible.,
Arthur C. Clarke

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.,
Theodore Roosevelt

Fortune favours the brave.,
Publius Terence

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?,
Robert Browning

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

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a
keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they
can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of
success.
Norman Vincent Peale

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is
rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our
beliefs about who we are.
Anthony Robbins

Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate
human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is
the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into
accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your
work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming
impossibilities.
Dale Carnegie

There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what
their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day
toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is
prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.
Deepak Chopra

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and
work.
Jeune.E. McIntyre.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to
be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always
your choice.
Wayne Dyer

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our
existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to
an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold
to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I
warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H. Maslow

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it
depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does
anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept
oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game
in the world — making the most of one’s best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to
be.
Socrates

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Charles Schwab

Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really
important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your
answer.
Lee Jampolsky

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something
else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Unknown

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
Bruce Lee

There is no end.
There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of
life.
Federico Fellini

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die
today.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can
achieve.
Napoleon Hill

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what
you can do today.
Earl of Chesterfield

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day
when you lounge around doing nothing, it’s when you’ve had everything to do
and you’ve done it.
Margaret Thatcher

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve
made in the past.
Deepak Chopra

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money
become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring
success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more
intelligently.
Henry Ford

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is
the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what
you shall at last unveil.
James Allen

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.
Mike Murdock

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself
is mightier still.
Lao-Tzu

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually
laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new
level of living I now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins

If you don’t risk anything, then you risk even more.
Erica Jong

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into
action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

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

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve
imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

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

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do
not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca

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

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone
would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to
have a better plan for your life.
Jim Rohn

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
not.
Andre Gide

Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had
the confidence you desire to have.
Brian Tracy

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 that you think
you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more
than is required of him, he is a free man.
Chinese Proverb

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important
thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.
Desiderius Erasmus

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to
do, and then do it.
Henry Ford

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important
than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in
with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that
you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his
life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts;
for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in
ignorance.
William Wirt

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do
now.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our
thoughts, we make the world.

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

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.
Josh S. Hinds

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Basho

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It
will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are
only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee