Motivational Quotes

Hindsight is an exact science.

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

No individual can win a game by himself.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

We become what we think about.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

All life is an experiment.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

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

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

As a man is, so he sees.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

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

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

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