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Motivational Quotes - Motivational Sayings

Enjoy these Motivational Quotes to Live By and Motivational Sayings for Success in Life, Career, School, Sports, and more. Allow these motivational words to inspire you. Envision your future and take action on that vision. I also have an entire website devoted to Motivational Quotes.

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill

You can't cross the sea merely
by standing and staring at the water
- Rabindranath Tagore

To live is to choose.
But to choose well, you must know who you are
and what you stand for, where you want to go
and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

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

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Saying

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel (don Miguel Ruiz)

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Motivational Sports Quotes

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

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

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Funny Motivational Quotes

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde


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