Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"When you have the opportunity, you strike"

Rod Laver, Athlete

"Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe"

Torquato Tasso, Poet

"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation"

Walt Kelly, Cartoonist

"There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"The keener the want, the lustier the growth"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum!"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding"

Edward Albert, Actor

"I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within, unanswered by any beckoning from without"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"I've always loved a challenge"

Lana Turner, Actress

"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities"

James Allen, Author

"In all human affairs, there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result"

James Allen, Author

"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly"

James Allen, Author

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil"

James Allen, Author

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!"

Giorgio Armani, Designer

"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"You've got to love what you do to really make things happen"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"We are the lucky country, but we can't take that for granted. We have to work at it"

Anthony Albanese, President

"My philosophy is, as long as you enjoy what you're doing and you're giving it 100 percent, then everything else will fall into place"

Slash, Musician

"I think everybody has a gift. It's up to us as individuals to tap into it"

Slash, Musician

"No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Bigness is better"

Thomas J. Leonard, Businessman

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals"

Larry Bird, Coach

"And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it"

William Feather, Author

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