Top 100 Motivational Quotes

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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

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The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

3

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

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My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

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According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.11

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

12

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

13

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

14

You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

15

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

17

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

20

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

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Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

23

There is a difference in being in shape and being in football shape. Any one can out on the field and run around , but once you start getting hit and have to get up then you find out the difference between being in shape and football shape.

24

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

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Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

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To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

30

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

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Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

32

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.

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God ever works with those who work with will.

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The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

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Your inner strength is your outer foundation

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Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

40

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

41

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

42

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

43

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

44

You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.

45

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

46

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

47

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

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I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

49

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

50

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

51

I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.

52

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

53

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

54

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

55

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

56

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

57

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

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What I've learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?

59

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

60

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

61

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

62

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

63

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

64

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

65

The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.

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When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.

67

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

68

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

69

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

70

The best director is the one you don't see.

71

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

72

I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.

73

In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

74

The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.

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You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

76

Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

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Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

78

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

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I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

80

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

81

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

82

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

83

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

84

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

85

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

86

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

87

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

88

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

89

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

90

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

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To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.

92

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

93

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

94

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

95

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

96

Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

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We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.

98

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

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Coaches build teams, parents build players.

100

If we don't try, we don't do and if we don't do why are we here on earth?

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