The people that are feeding you the information on things that I like - love life, believe in yourself, be motivational, give your time to things and meditate - they're all older people who are well into their 50s and have had careers, and for me, at this point, I'm the young ambassador for this whole lifestyle of making your mentality a reality.
— Mod Sun
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
— Maya Angelou
I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.
— Martina Navratilova
Stoking fears of a potential shutdown is a strong motivational tool to get members on board with legislation that they don't want to support. Both parties are guilty of this.
— Mark Meadows
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
— Malala Yousafzai
I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled 'how to be a motivational speaker.'
— Lizzie Velasquez
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.
— Leonard Mlodinow
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
— Lenny Kravitz
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
— Kyle Chandler
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
— Ken Venturi
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.
— Justin Zackham
I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.
— Jordan Burroughs
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
— John F. Kennedy
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
— John D. Rockefeller
Leap, and the net will appear.
— John Burroughs
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
— Jimmy Dean
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
— Jim Rohn
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
— Michael Korda
After a storm comes a calm.
— Matthew Henry
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The more things you do, the more you can do.
— Lucille Ball
I told myself that I wanted to be a motivational speaker, I wanted to write a book, graduate college, have my own family, and have my own career.
I come to win.
— Leo Durocher
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
— Lauren Bacall
I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.
— Khloe Kardashian
Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.
— Keke Palmer
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
— Julie Andrews
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
— John W. Gardner
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
— John Donne
If you think you can do it, you can.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
— Mia Hamm
Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.
— Marvin Sapp
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
— Mark Twain
I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
— Marianne Vos
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
— Louise Mensch
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
— Les Brown
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
— Leo Buscaglia
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.
— Lao Tzu
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
— Khalil Gibran
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
— Katharine Hepburn
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
There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.
— John M. Grunsfeld
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
— John Dewey
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
— Joan of Arc
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
