Motivational Quotes

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but I have yet to find one in Fedor Emelianenko.

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

Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.