108 private quotes tagged motivational

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”— Winston Churchill

“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

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.”— Jim Rohn

“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

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”— Og Mandino

“Never complain and never explain.”— Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”— Dale Carnegie

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”— Elbert Hubbard

“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

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”— Epictetus

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”— Helen Keller

“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

“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”— Baruch Spinoza

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”— Benjamin Franklin

“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

“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”— Robert H. Schuller

“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

“Always desire to learn something useful.”— Sophocles

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”— Dalai Lama

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”— Mark Twain

“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”— Carl Sandburg

“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.”— Sylvia Browne

“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