motivation quotes

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Everybody has a purpose.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Music is really driving my whole life.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.