Motivational Quotes

We all need some words of wisdom - especially to keep on keeping on. These are some sayings I have collected (friends, emails, twitter, facebook, etc) in my lifetime that motivate me to put that extra care into each moment of my life.

success seems to be connected with action. successful people keep moving. they make mistakes, but they don’t quit - conrad hilton

you can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine - flip wilson

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D Eisenhower

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then, you have to play better than anyone else” - Albert Einstein

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford

There is no secrets to success, it is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failures.~Colin Powell

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. Shakespeare

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. Seneca

Emotions are the most powerful things in the universe, it drives EVERYTHING

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. — Jim Rohn

“You’re never a failure until you fail to get up.” -Evel Knievel

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” Ann Landers

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer

true test of character is not how much we know how 2 do, but how we behave when we don’t know what 2 do. - John ROhn

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ~James Allen

The greatest revenge is to accomplish what others say you cannot do

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

The best way yo get your voice heard is to speak up - No one can hear your thought. - Douglas Idugboe

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali

A “no” in the sales process, only means customer has more questions. Answer them to close the sale

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King Jr

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ~ Shirley MacLaine

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm Forbes

Time spent wishing is time wasted - The Janitor from Scrubs TV show

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. - Tom Krause

Influence Is How Well You Put Other People’s Interest First…

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you have imagined

if you are gonna think - THINK BIG …… Donald trump

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try

Misfortune is opportunity misread.

Entrepreneurship is balancing unbridled optimism with intense skepticism. Dan Eisenberg

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. Andrew Carnegie

You can not make excuses and money at the same time.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Theresa

What is defeat, other than the God given opportunity to do it again, The right way! — Larry Bennett

When you think or say “I am…” be sure its always a positive statement. Your thoughts create you + your life

Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. - E. E. Cummings

You Must Take Full Responsibility Of What Happens In Your Life

Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design… - Jim Rohn

Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. -~Susan Rabi

Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Confuciu

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ~Aristotle

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. - Henry B. Wilson

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ~ Herbert Hoover

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself ~ Jim Rohn

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhowser

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory. — Dutch Proverb

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

You are what you think about all day long. — Robert Schuller

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud. — Bono

Everyone is a freelance writer of his own life. No one knows how his story is supposed to end

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Those who know don’t tell and those who tell don’t know. — Zen Prover

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. — Sun Tzu

Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible. — Howard Schultz

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same. ~Daniel Knode

If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul. — Drew Barrymore

One today is worth two tomorrows. Ben Franklin

You create your own universe as you go along. – Winston Churchill

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. - Lance Armstrong

nothing to fear but fear itself.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does. – Warren Buffett

Live each day as if it’s a precious Gift, because it is. ~ John Di Lemme

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves. ~ Äî Natsuki Takaya

Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.” Jean Giraudoux

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve. W.C. Stone

We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are~Anais Nin

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth. ~Adyashanti

You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Ben Franklin

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it. Michael Davis

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves ~ Dale Carnegie

“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one” - Russian Proverb

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. - Doug Ivester

The minute u settle for less than u deserve, u get even less than u settled for. — Maureen Dowd

today is difficult, tomorrow is much more difficult, the day after tomorrow is very beautiful, but most die tomorrow evening -Jack Ma

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. ~Michael Althsuler

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage & inspire you. - Brian Tracy

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” - Kurt Cobain

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. ~ Albert Einstein

Creative without strategy is called ‘art’. Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising’. - Jef I. Richards

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.” ~ Siddhārtha Gautama

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. -Al Pacino

If we’re always looking in the rear view mirror it’s hard to keep our eyes on the road ahead

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived at all- LRosten

Observe all men, thyself most. Ben Franklin

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ~ Andy Warhol

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing. Donald Trump

don’t confuse kindness with weakness

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.

You know what luck is? Luck is believing you’re lucky. That’s all. - Marlon Brando

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it. Jim Rohn

This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. Jim Rohn

Most people struggle, simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself

“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.” Henry Ford

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then, you have to play better than anyone else” Albert Einstein

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo

“You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” Zig Ziglar

“Ask a question, be an idiot for 5 minutes. Don’t ask a question? Be an idiot forever.”

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” Ralph Marston

“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.” R. Townsend

“My creative juices are flowing because I choose to love my work.” Louise Hay

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something worth fighting, sometime in your life.” -Winston Churchill

“I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.” Maya Angelou

“Be willing to do what’s uncomfortable it’s the only time you’re growing” unknown

“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” Wayne Gretzky

“You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.” Dale Carnegie

“We are all born geniuses, but some of us grow up more damaged than others.” Buckminster Fuller

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“None but ourselves can free our minds” Bob Marley

“Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” Unknown

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

“bite off more then you can chew, then chew it”

“Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.” -Brian Tracy

“Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”   - Emily Dickinson (poet)

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”   - George Orwell (writer)

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for everything.”   -  Malcolm X (activist)

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”   - Eric Hoffer (philosopher/writer)

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”  - Charlie Chaplin (actor/filmmaker)

“The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.”   - Lucan (poet)

“Pride and poverty don’t get along, but often live together.”   - (proverb)

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”  - James Thurber (humorist)

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”   - Babe Ruth (baseball player)

“Please all and you will please none.”  -  Aesop (fabulist)

“Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.”

Norman Vincent Pearle (clergyman/writer)

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”   - Dale Carnegie (lecturer/author)

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”  - Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady/diplomat)

“You can live with pain, you can live with embarassment, remorse is an awful companion”  - John McCain

“To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.”   - (anonymous)

“Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much.”   - Oscar Wilde (playwright)

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”    - E.E. Cummings (poet)

“Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.”    -  Ross Perot (businessman)

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”    - Anais Nin (writer)

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.”  - Kenneth Tynan (critic)

“He is poor who does not feel content.”   -  (Japanese proverb)

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”     -  Babe Ruth (baseball player)

“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”   - William James (writer/philosopher)

“A man can fail, but he isn’t a failure until he blames someone else.”    -  J. Paul Getty (businessman)

“A shortcut to riches is to subtract from one’s desires.”  - Plutarch (Greek essayist and biographer)

“Success comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”    -  Henry David Thoreau (philosopher)

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”    - Thomas Jefferson (U.S. President)

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”   - Oscar Wilde (playwright)

“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.”  - Joe Paterno (football coach)

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.”  -  Lance Armstrong (bicyclist)

“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”    - Vincent Van Gogh (artist)

“You can not win unless you learn how to lose.”    -  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (athlete)

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”   -  Theodore Roosevelt (American president)

“You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.”   -  Cesar Chavez (activist)

“Life is what we make it, always has been and always will be.”   - Grandma Moses (artist)

“Anybody can criticize, cry, & complain - and most fools do.”     - unknown

“Failure is the honest attempt to succeed without all the proper tools.”    - unknown

“Desire the best for those who take advantage of you.”    unknown