Motivational Quotes

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

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.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

Always take the high road.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

Life is never free of contradictions

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

You can do it if you believe you can.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - - but create!