Top 100 Motivational Quotes

1

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

2

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

3

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

4

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

5

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

6

There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

7

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.

8

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of ...9

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think ...10

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

11

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

12

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

13

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

14

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

15

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

16

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

17

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

18

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

19

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

20

Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!

21

Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.

22

The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

23

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

24

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

25

For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams.

26

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

27

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

28

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

29

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

30

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

31

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

32

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

33

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

34

Never complain and never explain.

35

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

36

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

37

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

38

I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'

39

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

40

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

41

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

42

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

43

I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.

44

Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.

45

It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

46

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing

47

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

48

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

49

Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

50

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

51

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

52

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

53

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

54

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

55

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

56

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

57

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

58

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

59

To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.

60

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

61

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

62

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

63

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

64

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

65

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

66

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

67

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

68

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

69

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.

70

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

71

The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

72

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

73

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

74

Don't ever let someone tell you you can't do something.

75

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.

76

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.

77

Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.

78

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

79

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

80

I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.

81

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

82

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

83

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

84

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

85

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

86

The enemy is a very good teacher.

87

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

88

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

89

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

90

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

91

Passion is more developed than discovered.

92

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.

93

During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

94

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

95

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

96

Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

97

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

98

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

99

As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.

100

With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

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