Motivational Quotes

Quotations that Motivate

Attitude

• There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor. — Alan Cohen, A Deep Breath Of Life
• You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. — Charles F. Kettering
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the REALIST adjusts his sails. (author unknown)
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. — Robert Frost

Confidence

• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

• The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. — E. E. Cummings
• Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. — Brendan Francis

Empowerment

• Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake. — Marie Beyon Ray
• My dad always used to say, “If you’re falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose.” — Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5
• Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. — John Wooden
• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. — Wayne Dyer
• When we blame, we give away our power. — Greg Anderson
• Maturity is the ability to express one’s own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others. — Hrand Saxenian

Friendship

• It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected. — Voltaire
• A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure. — Ecclesiastes 9:10

Love

• Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• There are countless ways to express love. Be creative! — Inneractions by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.

Miracles

• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

Persistence

• Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself. Author Unknown
• “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. — Douglas Everett, American Hockey Player

Success

• If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you’re doing. Love what you’re doing. And believe in what you’re doing. — Will Rogers
• When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won’t come up with a hand full of mud, either.” — Leo Burnett
• The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility. — Leland Kaiser
• The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. — Mark Caine
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The people that get on in this world are the people that get up and look for the circumstances that they want; and if they can’t find them, they make them. — George Bernard Shaw
• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. – Henry Ford
• The best way to predict the future is to create it! — Jason Kaufmann
• Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation. — Inneractions by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
• Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably. — Inneractions by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
• The point of life is not to be married or single – it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose – it’s what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts. — Alan Cohen, Rising in Love

Values

• It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. — Roy Disney
• To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves … let us be above such transparent egotism. — Will Durant