Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
— Sasha Cohen
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
— Sam Levenson
I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.
— Ryan Howard
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
— Rose Kennedy
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
— Robert H. Schuller
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
— Richard Rorty
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
— Ralph Marston
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
— Phillips Brooks
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
— Peter Steele
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
— Pauline Kael
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
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
— Og Mandino
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
— Norman Cousins
I want to build a legacy at the WWE, but I definitely want to continue to grow the Bella Empire. I want it to go beyond the ring. I would love to be a motivational speaker.
— Nikki Bella
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
— Natalie Gulbis
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
I have given motivational speeches at IIT and other well-known establishments. I want to appeal to the people, and therefore, I talk from the heart.
— Sangram Singh
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
— Rupert Murdoch
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
— Philip Sidney
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
— Peter Marshall
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
— Orison Swett Marden
Many are called but few get up.
— Oliver Herford
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
It's always too early to quit.
Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.
— Nina Tassler
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
— Nelson Mandela
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
— Napoleon Hill
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
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
I used to watch a lot of motivational films and videos to remain positive.
— S. Sreesanth
I'm a wrestler with nine toes. I'm a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, 'You never quit. You keep coming back.'
— Rulon Gardner
Do whatever you do intensely.
— Robert Henri
The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic to highfalutin. And they paid me well once the magazine was unionized. Getting paid is motivational.
— Robert Christgau
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
— Pope John XXIII
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
— Philip Emeagwali
He conquers who endures.
— Persius
A will finds a way.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Deserve your dream.
— Octavio Paz
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
It always seems impossible until it's done.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
— Muhammad Iqbal
