motivation quotes

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Success is the child of audacity.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Bring them on.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Life loves the liver of it.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

To lead people walk behind them.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.