Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

"Accomplish something every day of your life"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?""

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... But I had high expectations for myself"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough"

Frank Crane, Clergyman

"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time"

Billy Joel, Musician

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things"

Channing Pollock, Actor

"I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe"

Christian Bale, Actor

"To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

"The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one!"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things"

Joe Paterno, Coach

"No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

"Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

"Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

"If you put the work in, and you show that you're willing to work hard, you'll succeed"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"I'm happy with what I've done, but it's a challenge to try to win more"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"Win one for the Gipper"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"Genius is initiative on fire"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do"

Chuck Norris, Actor

"There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision"

Robyn Davidson, Writer

"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"

Jimmy Johnson, Coach

"In our film profession, you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage"

Frank Capra, Director

"None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue"

James Monroe, President

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal"

Don Shula, Coach

"Do noble things, not dream them all day long"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"The man who has done his best has done everything"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"I feel there's everything to do yet"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

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