Motivational Quotes

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~ Henry Ford


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.  ~ Woody Allen


There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.  ~ Charles D. Gill


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  ~ Anne Frank


Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little bit above it.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


There is always room at the top.  ~ Daniel Webster


Life is a raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.  ~ Cathy Better


Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps going.  ~ Jim Rohn


Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.  ~ George S. Patton


Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else.  ~ Tennessee Williams


If you want to do something, do it!  ~ Plautus


Always do what you are afraid to do.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~ Wendy Wasserstein


Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.  ~ Sydney Smith


The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.  ~ Arthur C. Clark


Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~ Les Brown


Dreams are free, so free your dreams.  ~ Astrid Alauda


Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.  ~ Propertius


It is never too late to be who you might have been.  ~ George Eliot


If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.  ~ Jonathan Winters


Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.  ~ Abraham Lincoln


To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.  ~ Susan Longacre


When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.   ~ Thomas A. Edison


Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.  ~ Buddha


Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.  ~ Mother Teresa


Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.  ~ Mary Kay Ash


With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.  ~ Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton


You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.  ~ George S. Patton


The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.  ~ Michelangelo


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  ~ Albert Einstein


Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.  ~ William Faulkner


Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.  ~ Madeline Bridges


The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.  ~ Dorothea Brande


The best way out is always through.  ~ Robert Frost


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  ~ Arnold H. Glasow


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.  ~ Ayn Rand


Don't find fault.  Find a remedy.  ~ Henry Ford


Whenever you fall, pick something up.  ~ Oswald Avery


Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.   ~ Muhammad Ali


The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!  ~ Audrey Hepburn


Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.  ~ Niccolo Machiavelli


Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.  ~ John Ruskin


Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.  ~ Raymond Chandler


Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.  ~ George Eliot


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.  ~ Albert Einstein


Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.  ~ Dwight D Eisenhower


The way to get ahead is to start now. ~ William Feather


We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!  ~ George Matthew Adams


If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.  ~ Catherine Ponder


Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.  ~ Florence Scovel Shinn


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.  ~ Milton Berle


As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.  ~ Donald J. Trump


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.  ~ Aristotle