Motivational Quotes

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith, The Way To Succeed

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Maxwell Maltz

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment.

Steve Maraboli

You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.

Steve Maraboli

Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can't go further when they don't even know how far you've come?

Steve Maraboli

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

Steve Maraboli

On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking.

Stephen Richards

Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.

Stephen Richards

How would your life be different ifYou pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the dayYou let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.

Steve Maraboli

With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.

Steve Maraboli

You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.

Steve Maraboli

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Og Mandino

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Baltasar Gracian

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Henry Ward Beecher

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Jimmy Dean

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

John W. Foster

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bobby Knight

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus