Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

"Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself"

Wayne Newton, Musician

"Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short"

Debbie Meyer, Athlete

"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done"

Shannon Hoon, Musician

"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

"And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do"

Warren Rudman, Politician

"How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

"I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift"

Mos Def, Musician

"I will go anywhere, provided it is forward"

David Livingstone, Explorer

"Great effort springs naturally from great attitude"

Pat Riley, Coach

"The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands, in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians, and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"I consider myself a court jester - motivator"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"We always think that everybody can do a little bit more, if not a lot more"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney"

Famke Janssen, Actress

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it"

Dick Butkus, Athlete

"But you have to do what you dream of doing, even while you're afraid"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"I'm always being inspired "

Boy George, Musician

"We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music"

Barbara Sher, Businessman

"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do"

Barbara Sher, Businessman

"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given"

Barbara Sher, Businessman

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining"

Barbara Sher, Businessman

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly"

Lauren Bacall, Actress

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements"

Napolean Hill, Author

"What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us"

Julia Cameron, Author

"Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"Well, there are two things: Number one is make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me"

Zane Grey, Author

"I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace"

Kate Chopin, Author

"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow"

Julia Cameron, Author

"The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on"

George Sewell, Actor

"The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start"

Zane Grey, Author

"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility"

Dale Dauten, Writer

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