Motivational - Quotes & Sayings

Step by step and the thing is done.

Charles Atlas

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Philip Sidney

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Thomas A. Edison

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton

It's always too early to quit.

Norman Vincent Peale

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Carl Sandburg

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Norman Cousins

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracian

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Orison Swett Marden

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Christopher Reeve

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Judy Collins

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pauline Kael

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Eileen Caddy

After a storm comes a calm.

Matthew Henry

Always desire to learn something useful.

Sophocles

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Carl von Clausewitz

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Muhammad Ali

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Philip Emeagwali

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Ken Venturi

One finds limits by pushing them.

Herbert Simon

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To begin, begin.

William Wordsworth

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Dean Koontz

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Jessica Savitch

The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Jimmy Dean

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

H. L. Hunt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Eliza Dushku

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Mia Hamm

You have to make it happen.

Denis Diderot

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Benjamin Jowett

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Shakti Gawain

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

John Donne

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Golda Meir

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

Don't think, just do.

Horace

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Stevie Wonder

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Beverly Sills

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.