Motivational - Quotes & Sayings

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Diane Sawyer

God always strives together with those who strive.

Aeschylus

Wherever you are - be all there.

Jim Elliot

I can, therefore I am.

Simone Weil

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

William James

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

The more things you do, the more you can do.

Lucille Ball

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Donna Brazile

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jim Carrey

A will finds a way.

Orison Swett Marden

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Richard Rorty

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Rose Kennedy

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

Leonard Mlodinow

Deserve your dream.

Octavio Paz

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Who seeks shall find.

Sophocles

Either move or be moved.

Ezra Pound

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Edgar Cayce

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Khalil Gibran

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

I come to win.

Leo Durocher

He conquers who endures.

Persius

Do whatever you do intensely.

Robert Henri

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola

When one must, one can.

Charlotte Whitton

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

George Whitefield

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

George C. Marshall

Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Natalie Gulbis

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Lauren Bacall

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Phillips Brooks

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Flip Wilson

Many are called but few get up.

Oliver Herford

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.

Taika Waititi

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Sylvia Browne

Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.

Nina Tassler

One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

Justin Zackham

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.

Ryan Howard

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

Young Jeezy

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Edward Norton

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Rupert Murdoch

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

Peter Steele

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

Marvin Sapp

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Drew Barrymore

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

Tina Brown