Motivational Quotations | Page 5

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

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.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

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.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

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.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

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.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

If you always put limit 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.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

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.

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.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.