Motivational Quotes

No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.

When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

People who keep journals have life twice

There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Your ability will grow to match your dreams.

For what it will make of you to achieve it.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.

As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

You have the power to help people become winners.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.

I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.