You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Only dead fish go with the flow.
Unknown author

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away
Unknown Author

To worry is like a rocking chair, it keeps you busy but it does not get you anywhere
Unknown author

Finally and above all, I have learnt to appreciate everything I have, rather than long for the things I don’t have yet. Because of this, I live a life of abundance and gratitude every day and feel like the wealthiest man alive.
Gary Wilde

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
Dennis DeYoung

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
General George S. Patton

Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill

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.
Napoleon Hill

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is o path and leave a trail.
Author Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

“We are what we believe we are.”
C. S. Lewis

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”
Unknown Author

No matter how you feel;
get up,
dress up and
show up.
Unknown

“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car, a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.”
Ben Sweetland

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

“Scars remind us where we’ve been – they don’t have to dictate where we are going.”
Joe Mantegna – Actor

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
Oprah Winfrey

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
Zig Ziglar

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Agatha Christie – 1890-1976, Novelist

“Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”
James Bryant Conant

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
Tony Robbins

It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.
Tony Robbins

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.
Ellen Goodman – Journalist

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. There’s no such thing as life in-between.
Pat Riley

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

If You Think You are Beaten
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you’d like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost certain you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
Walter D. Wintle

“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.”
Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-1989, Boxer

It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, and the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
Vince Lombardi

“There are 3 types of people in the world:

• Those who make things happen
• Those who watch things happen
• Those who ask “What happened?”

Unknown Author

You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person
Merle Nicholls

3 Responses to “Motivational Quotes”

1. Motivation says:

   April 8, 2010 at 08:18

   my favorite quote on your list “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” PROVEN…
2. TI MAHLANGU says:

   October 16, 2009 at 16:11

   You wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do
3. admin says:

   June 8, 2009 at 09:32

   The difference between whether you say, ‘I wish I would have,’ or ‘I’m glad I did,’ at the end of your life is whether or not you take DECISIVE ACTION during your life.

   Chris Widener