The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill
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
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
Judy Collins
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
James Rollins
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile
God always strives together with those who strive.
Aeschylus
To begin, begin.
William Wordsworth
Many are called but few get up.
Oliver Herford
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby
When one must, one can.
Charlotte Whitton
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
Edgar Cayce
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Swami Sivananda
I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.
Montel Williams
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
Tina Brown
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey