Motivational Quotes

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

~ Criss Jami

We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!

~ Steve Maraboli

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

~ Darren Shan

Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest. In each waking day, you will find scores of blessings and opportunities for positive change. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the unchangeable past or the indefinite future! Today is a new day!

~ Steve Maraboli

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life, don't make it wait any longer.

~ Steve Maraboli

Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Do more listening than talking, talk more about them than about you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.

~ Steve Maraboli

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.

~ Steve Maraboli

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

~ Steve Maraboli

One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference. You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

~ Zig Ziglar

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

~ Napoleon Hill

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

~ Sophie Kinsella

You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.

~ Steve Maraboli

LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

~ Robert Greene

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

~ Tyler Perry

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

~ John Boyle O'reilly

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

~ Steve Maraboli

LAW 25Re-Create YourselfDo not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

~ Robert Greene

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

~ Richard Dawkins

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

~ Criss Jami

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!

~ Steve Maraboli

Make today worth remembering.

~ Zig Ziglar

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!

~ Steve Maraboli

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

~ Jojo Moyes

LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

~ Robert Greene

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

~ John Stuart Mill

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

~ Francis Of Assisi

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.

~ Will Smith