To begin, begin.-William Wordsworth
Wherever you are - be all there.-Jim Elliot
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.-Ralph Marston
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.-Thomas Fuller
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
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.-Gordon B. Hinckley
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.-Thomas Paine
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.-Confucius
Only the educated are free.-Epictetus
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.-Walter Elliot
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.-Tony Robbins
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
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.-Henry Ford
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.-Ayn Rand
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.-Albert Einstein
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.-Katharine Hepburn
Either you run the day or the day runs you.-Jim Rohn
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.-Eileen Caddy
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.-Bobby Knight
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.-Amelia Earhart
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.-Dale Carnegie
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
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.-Henry David Thoreau
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.-Albert Camus
The dog that trots about finds a bone.-Golda Meir
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.-Muhammad Ali
Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.-Marvin Sapp
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
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
Leap, and the net will appear.-John Burroughs
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.-Thomas Jefferson
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
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.-Victor Kiam
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.-John Donne
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.-Ken Venturi
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.-H. L. Hunt
It's always too early to quit.-Norman Vincent Peale
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.-John F. Kennedy
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.-Helen Keller
Don't fight the problem, decide it.-George C. Marshall
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.-Allen Ginsberg
Never give in and never give up.-Hubert H. Humphrey
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
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.-Theodore Roosevelt
God always strives together with those who strive.-Aeschylus
I'm a motivational speaker.-Young Jeezy
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.-William James
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.-Confucius
After a storm comes a calm.-Matthew Henry
If you've got a talent, protect it.-Jim Carrey
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.-Henry David Thoreau
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.-George S. Patton
You create your opportunities by asking for them.-Shakti Gawain
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.-Mary Pickford
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.-Christopher Reeve
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.-Bill Cosby
Who seeks shall find.-Sophocles
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.-Albert Schweitzer
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.-Edward Norton
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.-Samuel Beckett
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
Deserve your dream.-Octavio Paz
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.-Norman Vincent Peale
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.-Swami Sivananda
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.-Robert H. Schuller
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.-Miguel Angel Ruiz
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-Dalai Lama
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.-Leo Buscaglia
If you're going through hell, keep going.-Winston Churchill
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.-Jim Rohn
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
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.-Simone de Beauvoir
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.-Baruch Spinoza
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.-Daniel H. Pink
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.-Nikos Kazantzakis
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.-Emile Zola
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
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.-Benjamin Jowett
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.-Jimmy Dean
A goal is a dream with a deadline.-Napoleon Hill
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.-Lao Tzu
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.-Diane Sawyer
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.-Thomas A. Edison
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.-W. Clement Stone
You have to make it happen.-Denis Diderot
As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.-Young Jeezy
If you think you can do it, you can.-John Burroughs
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.-Justin Zackham
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.-Carol Burnett
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.-Elbert Hubbard
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
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.-John W. Gardner
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.-Orison Swett Marden
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.-Benjamin Franklin
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.-Aristotle
I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.-Khloe Kardashian
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.-Jim Rohn
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.-William Butler Yeats
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.-Ted Turner
Know or listen to those who know.-Baltasar Gracian
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.-Leo Buscaglia
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.-Saint Teresa of Avila
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.-Carl Sandburg
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.-C. S. Lewis
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.-Robert H. Schuller
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.-Bo Jackson
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.-John D. Rockefeller
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.-Arthur Ashe
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.-Natalie Gulbis
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.-Dean Koontz
Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.-Drew Barrymore
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.-Philip Emeagwali
Well done is better than well said.-Benjamin Franklin
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.-Babe Ruth
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.-Sam Levenson
Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.-Keke Palmer
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.-Woodrow Wilson
Step by step and the thing is done.-Charles Atlas
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?-Eliza Dushku
You never know what motivates you.-Cicely Tyson
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.-Flip Wilson
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
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.-Wayne Dyer
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.-Henry Drummond
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.-Wayne Dyer
He conquers who endures.-Aulus Persius Flaccus
I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.-Andy Andrews
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.-Og Mandino
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.-Sylvia Browne
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.-Mark Twain
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.-Peter Marshall
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
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.-Baruch Spinoza
Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.-Woody Hayes
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.-Julie Andrews
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.-Zig Ziglar
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.-Richard Rorty
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
A will finds a way.-Orison Swett Marden
Always desire to learn something useful.-Sophocles
Never, never, never give up.-Winston Churchill
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.-Jessica Savitch
The more we do, the more we can do.-William Hazlitt
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.-Peter Steele
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.-Jack London
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.-Christopher Morley
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.-H. G. Wells
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.-Brian Tracy
I can, therefore I am.-Simone Weil
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.-Michael Korda
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
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.-Muhammad Iqbal
There is always room at the top.-Daniel Webster
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.-Epictetus
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.-Norman Cousins
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.-Kyle Chandler
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.-William James
If you can dream it, you can do it.-Walt Disney
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.-Denis Waitley
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
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.-Alfred A. Montapert
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
Never complain and never explain.-Benjamin Disraeli
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.-James Rollins
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.-Mia Hamm
When one must, one can.-Charlotte Whitton
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.-Robert Louis Stevenson
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.-Joan of Arc
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.-George Whitefield
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
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.-Louise Mensch
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.-Eleanor Roosevelt
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.-Baltasar Gracian
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.-Carl von Clausewitz
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.-Donna Brazile
One finds limits by pushing them.-Herbert Simon
