Motivational Quotes

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~ Henry Ford


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.  ~ Woody Allen


There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.  ~ Charles D. Gill


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  ~ Anne Frank


If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little bit above it.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


There is always room at the top.  ~ Daniel Webster


Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.  ~ George S. Patton


Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else.  ~ Tennessee Williams


Always do what you are afraid to do.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~ Wendy Wasserstein


Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.  ~ Sydney Smith


The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.  ~ Arthur C. Clark


Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~ Les Brown


Dreams are free, so free your dreams.  ~ Astrid Alauda


Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.  ~ Propertius


It is never too late to be who you might have been.  ~ George Eliot


If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.  ~ Jonathan Winters


Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.  ~ Abraham Lincoln


To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.  ~ Susan Longacre


Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.  ~ Buddha


Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.  ~ Mother Teresa


Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.  ~ Mary Kay Ash


You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.  ~ George S. Patton


The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.  ~ Michelangelo


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  ~ Albert Einstein


Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.  ~ William Faulkner


The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.  ~ Dorothea Brande


The best way out is always through.  ~ Robert Frost


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  ~ Arnold H. Glasow


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.  ~ Ayn Rand


Don't find fault.  Find a remedy.  ~ Henry Ford


Whenever you fall, pick something up.  ~ Oswald Avery


The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.  ~ Niccolo Machiavelli


Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.  ~ Raymond Chandler


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.  ~ Albert Einstein


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


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.  ~ Aristotle