Motivational Quotes

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

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

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Leadership is an action, not a position.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

Failure is a word I don't accept.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.