Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think"

Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Buck up or stay in the truck"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Men, today we die a little"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life what had been my childhood dream"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it"

LL Cool J, Musician

"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, Author

"My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it"

Terry Goodkind, Writer

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results"

Wade Boggs, Athlete

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability"

Kathleen Casey, Politician

"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"I did not come to lead sheep; I came to awaken lions"

Javier Milei, President

"Greatness is earned, not given"

J. J. Watt, Athlete

"Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light"

Henry S. Haskins, Businessman

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more"

Florence Griffith Joyner, Athlete

"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do"

Edward Everett Hale, Clergyman

"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible"

Edwin Land, Inventor

"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect"

Terry McMillan, Author

"To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort"

Scott Reed, Writer

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

Napolean Hill, Author

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"Sometimes you have to be brave and take a leap of faith, even if it's scary"

Sophie Ellis Bextor, Musician

"The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life"

Jimmy Dean, Actor

"I don't study; I create"

Viktor Korchnoi, Celebrity

"It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream"

Josh Ryan Evans, Actor

"Strivers achieve what dreamers believe"

Usher Raymond, Musician

"Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum"

Frances E. Willard, Activist

"I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in Formula One. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself"

Fernando Alonso, Celebrity

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"

Harold R. McAlindon

"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream"

Hugh Hefner, Publisher

"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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