Motivational Quotes

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Only those who seek shall find.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don't happen, I'd rather have nothing but know I didn't settle for something I didn't want!

Better hope deferred than none.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Open your mind before your mouth

If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.