102 Motivational Quotes To Inspire You These are broken up into the following topics:
Limiting Beliefs
Determination
Leadership
Preparation
Success & Accomplishment
Failure
Quotes On Limiting Beliefs “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” Jackie Joyner-Kersee “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” Arnold Palmer “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” Picabo Street “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” Wayne Dyer “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” Zig Ziglar “It always seems impossible until it is done.” Nelson Mandela “Either I find a way, or I will make one.” Philip Sidney “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” Nikos Kazantzakis “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John R. Wooden “Fortune sides with him who dares.” Virgil “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” Theodore N.Vail “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” Booker T. Washington “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” Diane Ackerman “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” Napoleon Hill “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” Anonymous
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” Anonymous “When you have self-esteem, you give yourself the audacity to dream big.” Gary Vaynerchuk “You’re more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.” Amy Martin “Too little confidence, and you’re unable to act; too much confidence, and you’re unable to hear.” John Maeda “Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.” Bobby Knight “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden “It’s better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.” Robin Sharma ________________________________________________________________
Quotes On Determination “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” Bo Jackson “It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” Paul Bryant “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” Tommy Lasorda “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” Pele “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." Muhammad Ali “If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?” Joe Namath “It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi “Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.” Tom Peters “It takes as much mental energy to dream small as to dream big, so you might as well dream big.” Rosabeth Kanter “What good is having a belly if there’s no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match, and get to work.” Simon Sinek “If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.” Simon Sinek “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” Michael John Bobak “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon “You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave–win or lose.”
Gordie Howe “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” Ronnie Lott “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” George Lorimer “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” Sam Levenson “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” Og Mandino “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas Edison “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” Dale Carnegie “There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” Pat Riley “If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.” Mario Andretti “Luck favours the people who are willing to grind it out.” Guy Kawasaki ________________________________________________________________
Quotes On Leadership “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.” Eddie Robinson “You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation.” Homer Rice “A leader isn’t good because they’re right; they’re good because they’re willing to learn and to trust.” Stan McChrystal “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” Richard Branson “An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.” Vinod Khosla “Never be a thought leader. There’s no value in that. Instead, try to add value.” Chris Brogan “You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.” Brian Halligan “Awesome people don’t like average goals.” Dharmesh Shah “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” Anonymous ________________________________________________________________
Quotes On Preparation “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” Joe Paterno “My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.” Marc Andreessen “Start with the end in mind” - Stephen Covey “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” Chris Grosser “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” Mark Caine “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” Albert Einstein “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” Anatole France “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein __________________________________________________________________
Quotes On Success & Accomplishment “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” Ray Goforth “To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” Mike Gafka “Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” John C Maxwell “Well done is better than well said.” Benjamin Franklin “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” Pablo Picasso “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Maya Angelou “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” John D. Rockefeller “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” Bruce Feirstein “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” Proverb “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Anonymous “A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.” Mary Lou Retton “Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.” Bill Shankly “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” Warren Buffet
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun “There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.” Susan Cain “Don’t let anything (or anyone) rent space in your mind for free. It’s valuable real estate.” Amy Martin “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain _________________________________________________________________
Quotes On Failure “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” Matt Biondi “If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail” Benjamin Franklin “What to do with a mistake: recognise it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” Dean Smith “I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.” Jim Valvano “It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low.” Bill Nicholson “Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.” Knute Rockne “You can learn a line from a win and a book from defeat.” Paul Brown “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill “I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” Robert Kiyosaki “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family and neighbours.” Napoleon Hill “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” George Bernard Shaw “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.” Truman Capote “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” Lolly Daskal "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever," said Mahatma Gandhi
