motivation quotes

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I always have to be writing.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

What is once well done is done forever.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Success is not a stop sign.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

My drive is other people’s success.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.