Motivational Quotes

Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart

~ Steven Aitchison

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

~ Bradley Whitford

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

~ Christopher Reeve

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

~ Rupert Murdoch

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

~ Herman Cain

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

~ Marianne Vos

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

~ Pope John Xxiii

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

~ Sasha Cohen

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

~ Og Mandino

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

~ Jerry West

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

~ Emanuel Steward

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

~ Judy Collins

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

~ George Herbert

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

~ Natalie Gulbis

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

~ Dominique Dawes

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

~ Lenny Kravitz

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

~ Rose Kennedy

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

~ John W. Gardner

My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.

~ Alia Bhatt

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

~ Jim Rohn

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

~ Dan Millman

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

~ St. Jerome

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

~ Epictetus

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

~ George S. Patton

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

~ Carl Sandburg

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

~ Martin Luther King

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

~ Pauline Kael

I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.

~ J. R. Martinez

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

~ Leo Buscaglia

God always strives together with those who strive.

~ Aeschylus

I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.

~ Martina Navratilova

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

~ Amy Waldman

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~ Dale Carnegie

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

~ Khalil Gibran