Motivation Quotes

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.

Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."

I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

I train the same way as I've always trained, even before I was champion. That's the difference, I train like a challenger.

When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

[Models] have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

It's not about having enough time, it's about making enough time.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.