Top 100 Motivational Quotes

1

Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

2

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

3

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

4

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

5

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

6

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

7

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

8

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

9

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

10

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

11

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.

12

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

13

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

14

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

15

The only way around is through.

16

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.

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

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

19

I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.

20

We work to become, not to acquire.

21

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

22

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

23

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.

24

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.

25

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

26

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

27

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

28

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

29

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

30

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

31

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

32

Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

33

It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

34

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.

35

I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

36

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

37

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

38

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

39

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

40

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

41

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

42

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

43

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

44

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

45

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

46

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

47

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

48

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.

49

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

50

Don't punk out and don't quit.

51

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

52

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

53

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

54

You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing, no keys to the house. You just ran outside into the woods. You weren't scared of nothing. I challenge you to do that as an adult. All your IDs, all your credit cards - just run out of the house with no phone, turn the corner where you can't see your house, and not have a full on panic attack.

55

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

56

I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

57

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.

58

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

59

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

60

Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

61

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

62

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

63

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

64

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

65

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

66

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

67

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

68

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

69

I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.

70

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

71

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

72

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

73

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

74

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

75

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

76

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

77

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

78

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

79

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.

80

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

81

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

82

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

83

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

84

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

85

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

86

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

87

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

88

Trials teach us what we are.

89

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

90

If we don't try, we don't do and if we don't do why are we here on earth?

91

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

92

I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.

93

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

94

I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.

95

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

96

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

97

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

98

You never know what motivates you.

99

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

100

You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

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