You are on page 1of 101

teve Mueller

OTIVATIONAL QUOTES
A collection of some of the most inspiring Motivational Quotes of all times.
Brought to you by Personal Development.
Motivational Quotes

“Too many people overvalue what they


are not and undervalue what they
are“

Malcolm Forbes
Motivational Quotes

“The dictionary is the only place where


success comes before work.“

Marc Twain
Motivational Quotes

“There is only one real sin, and that


is to persuade oneself that the
second-best is anything but the
second-best.”

Doris Lessing
Motivational Quotes

“You miss 100% of the shots you don´t


take.“

Wayne Gretzky
Motivational Quotes

“The will to persevere is often the


difference between failure and
success.“

David Sarnoff
Motivational Quotes

“Desire is the starting point of all


achievement, not a hope, not a wish,
but a keen pulsating desire which
transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill
Motivational Quotes

“If we did all the things we are


capable of, we would astound
ourselves.“

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational Quotes

“Ones best success comes after their


greatest disappointments.”

Henry Ward Beecher


Motivational Quotes

“Don´t ask what the world needs. Ask


what makes you come alive, and go
do it. Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive.”

Howard Thurman
Motivational Quotes

“Success is not the key to happiness.


Happiness is the key to success. If
you love what you are doing, you will
be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer
Motivational Quotes

“Never let your head hang down. Never


give up and sit down and grieve. Find
another way.”

Satchel Paige
Motivational Quotes

“The only way of finding the limits of


the possible is by going beyond
them into the impossible.”

Arthur C. Clarke
Motivational Quotes

“Great spirits have always


encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds.”

Albert Einstein
Motivational Quotes

“How soon not now becomes never”

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Motivational Quotes

“Without inspiration the best powers of


the mind remain dormant. There is a
fuel in us which needs to be ignited
with sparks.”

Johann Gottfried Von Herder


Motivational Quotes

“Do not brood over your past mistakes


and failures as this will only fill your
mind with grief, regret and depression.
Do not repeat them in the future.”

Swami Sivananda
Motivational Quotes

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:


it is the courage to continue that
counts.”

“Never, never, never, never give up.”

Winston Churchill
Motivational Quotes

“Really great people make you feel that


you, too, can become great”

Mark Twain
Motivational Quotes

“Most folks are about as happy as they


make their minds up to be.”

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational Quotes

“Trust yourself. You know


more than you think you
do.”

Benjamin Spock
Motivational Quotes

“If your actions inspire others to


dream more, learn more, do more
and become more, you are a
leader.”

John Quincy Adams


Motivational Quotes

“All that we are is the result of what we


have thought.”

Buddah
Motivational Quotes

“You will find as you look back upon your


life that the moments when you have
really lived are the moments when you
have done things in the spirit of love.”

Henry Drummond
Motivational Quotes

“People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never


a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader´s job is to help
people have vision of their potential.”

John Porter
Motivational Quotes

“The difference between the impossible and


the possible lies in a person´s
determination.”

Tommy Lasorda
Motivational Quotes

“You can´t cross the sea merely by


standing and staring at the water.”

Rabindranath Tagore
Motivational Quotes

“You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I


dream things that never were; and I say,
“Why not?””

George Bernard Shaw


Motivational Quotes

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but


in rising every time we fall.”

Confucius
Motivational Quotes

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

Napoleon Bonaparte
Motivational Quotes

“Happiness resides not in possessions


and not in gold; the feeling of
happiness dwells in the soul.”

Democritus
Motivational Quotes

“Nothing can stop the man with the


right mental attitude from
achieving his goal; nothing on
earth can help the man with the
wrong mental attitude.”

Thomas Jefferson
Motivational Quotes

“It´s never too late to be what you


might have been.”

George Eliot
Motivational Quotes

“Whether you think you can or think you


can´t, you are right.”

Henry Ford
Motivational Quotes

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

John Muir
Motivational Quotes

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Motivational Quotes

“The ultimate measure of a man is not


where he stands in moments of comfort
and convenience, but where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Motivational Quotes

“The greatest mistake you can make in


life is to continually be afraid you will
make one.”

Elbert Green Hubbard


Motivational Quotes

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose


the good we oft might win, by fearing to
attempt.”

William Shakespeare
Motivational Quotes

“To lose patience is to lose the battle.”

Mahatma Gandhi
Motivational Quotes

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry


about what may never happen. Keep
in the sunlight.”

Benjamin Franklin
Motivational Quotes

“If you can imagine it, you can


achieve it; if you can dream it, you
can become it.”

William Arthur Ward


Motivational Quotes

“One who fears failure limits his activities.


Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.”

Henry Ford
Motivational Quotes

“Whatever your mind can conceive and


believe, it can achieve.”

Napoleon Hill
Motivational Quotes

“The future belongs to those who


believe in the beauty of their
dreams.”

Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivational Quotes

“The harder the conflict the more


glorious the triumph.”

Thomas Paine
Motivational Quotes

“We make a living by what we get, but


we make a life by what we give!”

Winston Churchill
Motivational Quotes

“What you think of yourself is much


more important than what others
think of you.”

Seneca
Motivational Quotes

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say


nothing, be nothing.”

Elbert Green Hubbard


Motivational Quotes

“The greatest pleasure in life is in doing


what people say you cannot do.”

Walter Bagehot
Motivational Quotes

“The older I get, the more wisdom I find


in the ancient rule of taking first things
first – a process which often reduces
the most complex human problems to
manageable proportions.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Motivational Quotes

“If I accept you as you are, I will make


you worse; however if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable
of becoming, I help you become that.”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


Motivational Quotes

“Many of life´s failures are people


who did not realize how close
they were to success when they
gave up.”

Thomas Edison
Motivational Quotes
“Don´t spend your precious
time asking “Why isn´t the
world a better place?” It will
only be time wasted. The
question to ask is “How can
I make it better?” To that
there is an answer.

Leo F. Buscaglia
Motivational Quotes

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to


be true. I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live up to what light I
have.

Abraham Linclon
Motivational Quotes

“Life is meant to be a
celebration! It shouldn´t be
necessary to set aside
special times to remind us
of this fact. Wise is the
person who finds a reason
to make every day a special
one.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
Motivational Quotes

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what


you have not; but remember that what you
have was once among the things only
hoped for.”

Epicurus
Motivational Quotes

“When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only


response is that I am thankful I have a cup.”

Sam Lefkowitz
Motivational Quotes

“Take time to deliberate, but when the


time for action has arrived stop
thinking and go in.”

Napoleon Bonaparte
Motivational Quotes

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to


win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank
with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy nor suffer much, because they
live in the gray twilight that knows
neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt
Motivational Quotes

“The line between failure and success is


so fine that we scarcely know when we
pass it – so fine that we often are on
the line and do not know it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Motivational Quotes

“Success is to be measured not so much by


the position that one has reached in life,
as by the obstacles one has overcome
trying to succeed.”

Booker T. Washington
Motivational Quotes

“There are two things to aim at in life: first


to get what you want; and after that, to
enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind
achieve the second.”

Logan Pearsall Smith


Motivational Quotes

“If one advances confidently in the


direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success unexpected
in common hours.”

Henry David Thoreau


Motivational Quotes

“Good people are good because they´ve


come to wisdom through failure. We
get very little wisdom from success,
you know… One who doesn´t try
cannot fail and become wise.”

William Saroyan
Motivational Quotes

“Always bear in mind that your own


resolution to success is more important
than any other thing.”

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational Quotes

“Only through experience of trial and


suffering can the soul be
strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired, and success achieved.”

Helen Keller
Motivational Quotes

“Facing it, always facing it, that´s the way


to get through. Face it.”

Joseph Conrad
Motivational Quotes

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without


vision is a nightmare.”

Japanese Proverb
Motivational Quotes

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly


have patience with yourself. Do not lose
courage in considering your own
imperfection, but instantly set about
remedying them – every day begin the
task anew.”

Saint Francis De Sales


Motivational Quotes

“The secret of the man who is universally


interesting is that he is universally
interested.”

William Dean Howells


Motivational Quotes

“As human beings, our greatness lies not


so much in being able to remake the
world… as in being able to remake
ourselves.”

Mahatma Gandhi
Motivational Quotes

“Success often comes to those who


dare to act. It seldom goes to the
timid who are ever afraid of the
consequences.”

Jawaharlal Nehru
Motivational Quotes

“Obstacles are those frightful things


you can see when you take your
eyes off your goal.”

Henry Ford
Motivational Quotes

“What lies behind us and what lies


before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Motivational Quotes

“Champions aren´t made in the gyms.


Champions are made from something
they have deep inside them – a
desire, a dream a vision.”

Muhammad Ali
Motivational Quotes

“You just can´t beat the person who


never gives up.”

Babe Ruth
Motivational Quotes

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help


others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What´s in it
for me?””.”

Brian Tracy
Motivational Quotes

“You measure the size of the


accomplishment by the obstacles you had
to overcome to reach your goals.”

Booker T. Washington
Motivational Quotes

“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will and


I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking
thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or
what they can´t do.”

 Dennis Waitley
Motivational Quotes

“Deliver more than you are getting paid to
do. The victory of success will be half
won when you learn the secret of
putting out more than is expected in all
that you do. Make yourself so valuable
in your work that eventually you will
become indispensable. Exercise your
privilege to got the extra mile and enjoy
all the rewards you receive”
 Og Mandino
Motivational Quotes

“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the


engine.”

Napoleon Hill
Motivational Quotes

“Life is not easy for any of us, but what


of that? We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in
ourselves.”

Marie Curie
Motivational Quotes

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as


they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

Denis Waitley
Motivational Quotes

“Never let your work drive you. Master


it and keep it in complete control.”

Booker T. Washington
Motivational Quotes

“You say I started out with practically


nothing, but that isn´t correct. We all
start with all there is. It´s how we
use it that makes things possible.”

Henry Ford
Motivational Quotes

“I don´t have to be what nobody else


wants me to be and I am not afraid
to be what I want to be.”

Muhammad Ali
Motivational Quotes

“I studied the lives of great men and


women, and I found that the men
and women who got to the top
were those who did the jobs they
had in hand, with everything they
had of energy and enthusiasm and
hard work.”

Harry S. Truman
Motivational Quotes

“The seat of freedom is reserved for the


man who lives by his own work, and in
that work, does what he wants to do.”

Robin George Collingwood


Motivational Quotes

“Henry Ford could get anything out of men


because he just talked and would tell
them stories. He´d never say, “I want
this done!” He´d say, “I wonder if we can
do it.””

George Brown
Motivational Quotes

“It´s not that I´m so smart; it´s just


that I stay with problems longer.”

Albert Einstein
Motivational Quotes

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every


opportunity. The optimist sees
opportunity in every difficulty.”

Winston Churchill
Motivational Quotes

“To be a champion, you have to believe in


yourself when nobody else will.”

Sugar Ray Robinson


Motivational Quotes

“Great things are not done by impulse,


but by a series of small things brought
together.”

Vincent van Gogh


Motivational Quotes

“Only those who will risk going too far


can possibly find out how far they
can go.”

T.S. Eliot
Motivational Quotes

“I have failed over and over again – that


is why I succeed.”

Michael Jordan
Motivational Quotes

“I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt


to do nothing and succeed.”

Robert Schuller
Motivational Quotes

“A problem is a chance for you to do


your best.”

Duke Ellington
Motivational Quotes

“We grow great by dreams. All big


men are dreamers.”

Woodrow Wilson
Motivational Quotes

“Twenty years from now you will be more


disappointed by the things that 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
END
THE

Feel free to submit further fantastic


quotes about motivation, success and personal development to

www.facebook.com/PlanetofSuccess

You might also like