Motivational Quotes

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~ Frederick Douglass

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ~ Lou Holtz

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” ~ Art Linkletter

“As long as you’re going to think anyway, think big.” ~ Donald Trump

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” ~ Lao Tzu

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.” ~ Lance Armstrong

“Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up’s.” ~ Peter Davies

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ~ Beverly Sills

“Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway.” ~ John Wayne

“It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.” ~ Jean Nidetch

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” ~ Roger Bannister

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ~ Groucho Marx

“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible determination – a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.” ~ Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.” ~ Og Mandino

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. ” ~ Jack Kerouack

“Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale