101 Motivational Quotes

1. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
-Benjamin Disraeli

2. This is the first day.... of the rest of your life - Origin Unknown

3. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

4. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Yeats

5. The harder you fall the higher you bounce. – Horace

6. Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he will become as he can and should be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7. Don't go through life grow through life - Eric Butterworth

8. Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you
do in your spare time - Marion Wright Edelman

9. Success is not the key to happiness; Happiness is the key to success. - Albert Schweitzer

10. People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie

11. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

12. You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

13. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs

14. If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right. - Henry Ford

15. The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Thomas Henry Huxley

16. Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napolean Bonaparte

17. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely
in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

18. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly I can! - and get
busy and find out how to do it - Theodore Roosevelt

19. Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than
other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting
more than others think possible. - Origin Unknown

20. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question
remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb

21. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein

22. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn Vos Savant

23. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that
something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton

24. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the
shore. - Origin Unknown

25. If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Origin Unknown

26. Success seems to be connected with action Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they do not quit. - Conrad Hilton

27. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by
what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

28. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you
cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place
and time the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

29. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your, the blueprints
of your ultimate achievements. - Napolean Hill

30. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

31. It's never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

32. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing..
- Albert Schweitzer

33. To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce

34. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

35. It's a funny thing about life; if You refuse to accept anything but the best-You very
often get it. - W.Somerset Maugham

36. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37. Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

38. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

39. There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure. - Colin Powell

40. Your attitude determines your altitude. - Zig Ziglar

41. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small
tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

42. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James

43. How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard

44. You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people
get what they want. - Zig Ziglar

45. Change your thoughts, change your life. - James Allen

46. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

47. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –
Professor Albus Dumbledore

48. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires. - William A. Ward

49. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than
You can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

50. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt

51. Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be. - Abraham Lincoln

52. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work
of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

53. The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

54. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

55. A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd

56. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain

57. Tough times never last but tough people do. - Robert Schuller

58. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got a hold of
for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing
it on to future generations - George Bernard Shaw

59. If you don't like something, change it, If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou

60. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson


61. The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

62. Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall!
Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them.
And they flew. - Guillaume Apollinaire

63. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men
as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller

64. Do what you love and the money will follow - Marsha Sinetar

65. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

66. If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won’t.
Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. - Origin Unknown

67. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Origin Unknown

68. People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never
forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

69. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

70. Faith can move mountains. - Origin Unknown

71. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination
that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

72. Happiness lies in the thrill of creative effort and joy of achievement – Roosevelt

73. The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they
become by it. - John Ruskin

74. It's always darkest before the dawn. - Origin Unknown

75. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill

76. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you
with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton

77. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan,
but also believe. - Anatole France

78. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

79. Failing to plan is planning to fail. - Origin Unknown

80. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor - Vince Lombardi

81. Faith can move mountains. - Origin Unknown

82. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. - Origin Unknown

83. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration - Thomas Edison

84. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw

85. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge

86. He who hesitates is lost! – Proverb

87. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy

88. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is
more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

89. He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Origin Unknown

90. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. — Henri Bergson

91. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Confucius

92. Whatever you are be a best one. - Abraham Lincoln

93. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

94. No pain, No gain. - Origin Unknown

95. Money is not everything. The best things in life are free. - Origin Unknown

96. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Dr. Harriet Braiker

97. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish. -John Quincy Adams

98. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
– Helen Keller

99. If fear alters behavior, you are already defeated. - Origin Unknown
100. The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance. -Owen Feltham
101. Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart. -Cathy Ferguson