Best 122 Motivational Quotes

A satisfied need no longer motivates.

@Peter Sheahan

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

@Peter Drucker

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

@George S. Patton

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

@Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

@Everett Dirksen

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

@Winston Churchill

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

@Albert Schweitzer

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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

@John Maxwell (British Army officer)

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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

@Colin Powell

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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

@Sam Walton

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Things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left behind by those that hustle.

@Abraham Lincoln

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Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

@Unknown

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Clear your mind of can’t.

@Samuel Johnson

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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

@Michael Jordan

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

@Michael Jordan

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

@Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

@Mario Andretti

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

@Michelangelo

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say, Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

@Pope Paul VI

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A well-spent day brings happy sleep

@Leonardo da Vinci

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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

@Francesco Guicciardini

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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

@Leonardo da Vinci

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There is always one more thing you can do to improve your situation; and after that one more thing...

@Hal Moore

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The only thing wrong with nothing happening is, nothing is happening.

@Hal Moore

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Trust your instincts.

@Hal Moore

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

@Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

@Michael Jordan

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To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

@Michael Jordan

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My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

@Michael Jordan

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

@Michael Jordan

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I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

@Michael Jordan

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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

@Marie Robinson Wright

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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

@Mahatma Gandhi

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

@Jimmy Dean

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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

@Dale Carnegie

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

@Dale Carnegie

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Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

@Dale Carnegie

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.

@Dale Carnegie

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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

@Dale Carnegie

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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

@Dale Carnegie

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

@Abraham Lincoln

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

@Unknown

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

@Abraham Lincoln

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

@William Arthur Ward

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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

@Mother Teresa

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Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

@Karen Ranney

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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

@Benjamin Spock

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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

@William Allen White

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

@Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

@Jim Stovall

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success

@Unknown

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Keep climbing. If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving!

@Martin Luther King Jr.

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When you're going through hell... keep going!

@Winston Churchill

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No one can give you any answers. There aren’t any. You have to discover for yourself—you must learn to navigate the mystery.

@Bill Hicks

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Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

@Michael Jordan

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Sometimes going too far is the only way to go.

@Unknown

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I'm a full court mess if the lord don't use me, running from my trials thinking everything's groovy.

@Derek Minor

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

@Albert Einstein

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To all the haters out there I wish you the best. You cant bring me down. I wake up everyday grateful for the opportunity and grateful to the fans.

@Justin Bieber

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So remember, this is bieber's world. you're just living in it. Bieber or Die.

@Justin Bieber

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I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

@Justin Bieber

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I will never say never! I will fight till forever!

@Justin Bieber

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I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

@Justin Bieber

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No matter how talented you are, not everybody is going to like you. But that's life, just stay strong.

@Justin Bieber

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You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.

@Eminem

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I had nothing to lose, but something to gain.

@Eminem

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But I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

@Eminem

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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

@Eminem

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See regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.

@Eminem

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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

@Eminem

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Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

@Joe Frazier

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Just had a good talk with God. Told me if we want something - work for it and he'll meet us halfway.

@Dwayne Johnson

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

@Benjamin Franklin

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

@Abraham Lincoln

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The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

@G. K. Chesterton

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You have to 'be' before you can 'do,' and do before you can 'have.'

@Zig Ziglar

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Giving up makes failure permanent.

@Andy Mineo

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When things are good we get lazy. Never accept in victory what you wouldn't accept in defeat. Even "small sin" brings death.

@Tedashii discography

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The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

@Robert Flatt

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Success: don't expect it overnight - but always expect it.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Be a yardstick of quality.

@Steve Jobs

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Rise and grind - the paycheck aint earnin' itself. 24/7.

@Dwayne Johnson

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To some its Hump Day. To us, it's Wednesday's getting its ass kicked & Thursday just asked Friday to switch places.

@Dwayne Johnson

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They sleep, we grind. They dream, we shine.

@Dwayne Johnson

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Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. It's a dare. Impossible is nothing.

@Muhammad Ali

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Never be afraid to fall apart because its an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

@Rab Smith

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A plaque of platinum status is wack if I'm not the baddest!

@Eminem

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

@Harry S. Truman

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You will accomplish amazing things! It's easy to think only other people (important people) have an impact. But you're an important person too! In the days, weeks, months and years ahead, you will make a difference. You will change people's lives for the better. You will fill hearts with hope. You will make dreams come true. Just by being you!

@Unknown

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Strength isn't how much you can lift... Strength is how you carry the weight on your shoulders.

@Unknown

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Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.

@Unknown

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An eternity of glory is worth a lifetime of pain.

@Lecrae

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My significance is found in pointing to someone far more significant.

@Lecrae

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

@Dr. Seuss

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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

@Barack Obama

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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

@Barack Obama

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You can live life like there's no tomorrow, but tomorrow is still there when you wake up, full of consequences.

@Lecrae

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Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for.

@John Piper

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Remember that guy who gave up? Neither does anybody else.

@Unknown

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Sometimes..money costs too much.

@Lecrae

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You must risk failure to achieve success.

@Unknown

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Knowledge is power.

@Francis Bacon

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What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only dream, but also believe.

@Anatole France

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

@Dr. Seuss

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I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

@Unknown

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Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.

@Unknown

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Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, that is; everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.

@Steve Jobs

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Greatness is won, not awarded.

@Guy Kawasaki

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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

@Charles Dickens

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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

@Earl Nightingale

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Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

@William Arthur Ward

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

@Mark Victor Hansen

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.

@Marcia Wieder

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Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching.

@Unknown

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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

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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. . . Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

@Helen Keller

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If we are together, nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

@Winston Churchill

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

@Leonardo da Vinci

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other people.

@Ralph Waldo Emerson

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