motivation quotes

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Never complain and never explain.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.