Motivational Quotes
Motivational Sayings
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
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.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
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