Motivational Quotes

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Washington Irving

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington

"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs." Bernard M. Baruch

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." Tom Brokaw

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Dwight Eisenhower

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker

Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle

Improvement begins with I. Arnold H. Glasgow

It is better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. Tuchy Palmieri

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony

"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best." Andrew Carnegie

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling. Yogi Berra

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. Phyllis Diller

"People see me and say, 'If you can do it, so can I,' and I am there to tell them yes, yes they can." Emma Rhodes, ED.D

"It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause." Jack Benny

"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope." Charles Schulz

"Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances." Andrew Carnegie

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." Erma Bombeck

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." Confucius

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." Benjamin Disraeli

"It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes." Linda Evans

"Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals." Henry Ford

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." Oprah Winfrey

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going." Brian Tracy

"Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing." Leo Buscaglia

"You may delay, but time will not." Benjamin Franklin

"Be the change that you want to see in the world." Mohandas Gandhi

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." Jonathan Swift

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique." William James

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it." William James

"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune." John Paul Getty

"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you." George Harrison

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness." Bob Hope

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions." Charles F. Kettering

"Knowledge of what makes a life happy and purposeful means little if this knowledge is not translated into action." Izzo, John, The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

"If you aim for nothing, you'll hit it right on the head, and if you aim for something, you will hit that too." DeNotaris, David, Feeling Your Way Through Life

"Don't settle for second best, ever. A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted."
Clark, Tony, thinkUcan Never Ending Destination

"Make a list of what you admire about someone. Work at bringing those virtues to your own life." Francis, Cindy, Life Lessons for Women

"Life, as we live it, is not a setup of prescheduled events that have no relationship to one another. Life is an unfolding in which we can participate." Schaef, Anne Wilson, Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much

"More than anybody else and more than any of the circumstances that surround you, you have the largest say in what your future will be." Cook,Sharon and Sholander, Graciela, Dream It Do It

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't compare yourself negatively with the giants or anyone else. . .rather, use them as models. Then get on with whatever it is you can accomplish with your life. . . and give it everything you have." Kassorla, Dr. Irene, Go for It

"Motivation comes from the goals you truly desire to accomplish AND your commitment to do whatever is necessary to accomplish the goals." Russ Mallard

We hope you have found inspiration in some of our favorite motivational and inspirational quotes. One of our favorite motivational quotes was said by the famous Charles Dickens: "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. "

Another favorite from our collection of motivational quotes:
"It's so important that you just do your own thing- whatever makes you truly happy- and do it as best you can." Bradley Trevor Greive, The Meaning of Life

Many people assume that motivation comes from other individuals or from other events. This is not necessarily true. Motivation can also come from motivational quotes like the one above. Even though a motivational quote can give you guidance, the real motivational spark comes from within you and it is your choice to grab that motivating spark and add fuel to it to make it burn with significant passion. This fuel cannot be borrowed from others, it cannot be bought or stolen. The fuel to inspire further ignition must be from your own thinking, attitude and absolute motivational ownership that will propel you on the right path to whatever it is you wish.

If you find that you are stagnant, that you are simply going through the motions of life with little or no satisfaction, you are in need of moving beyond your current circumstances. So, what do you do? One of the first tasks that you must complete is to sit down away from all the distractions in your life and to really be honest with yourself. You need to be able to let your soul speak to you, let your subconscious rule the thoughts you bring forth in order to find the truth. The truth you seek is only within you - it is not what your spouse wants or desires; it is not what your best friend wants, your true friends, and certainly not any influence in the world that speaks out to try and convince you that you should chose a certain road to travel.

The real truth is what your heart and soul says to you in no uncertain terms that this is what makes you happy - that is, truly happy. It may be that you have allowed extraneous forces to compel you to choose a certain career even though you never really had a burning internal desire to be whatever it is you now do. Do not let past decisions or actions speak louder than your real desires. For example, you may have, like a friend of mine, spent several years in university to become an engineer only to find that this was not what made them happy or even remotely fulfilled any passion. So, with a much clearer honesty, what did this friend do? The choice was lying just below the surface ready to spring out and consume only when allowed. This particular passion lay in working with computer applications, software development, but certainly not mechanical engineering. The decision was released, the passion discovered, and the path now known. The story ends after spending additional thousands of dollars for formal training - but training that was easily digested, if fact, devoured with glee. Now, my friend lives each day motivated from within, living the truth, doing what they really wanted to do …so can you!