Motivational Quotes

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Ideas without action are worthless.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

He's a haircut and a forehand.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.

You will never change what you tolerate.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

I fight for perfection

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Surround yourself with positive, energetic, successful people and learn from them.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

Honor does not have to be defended.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.