People say 'dream big,' that's kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.
— Jim Nantz
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
— Jessica Savitch
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
— Jack London
Never give in and never give up.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
One finds limits by pushing them.
— Herbert A. Simon
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm a motivational speaker, so I'm going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible.
— Harris Faulkner
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
— George S. Patton
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
— George Lucas
Don't fight the problem, decide it.
— George C. Marshall
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
— Florence Nightingale
I have never moved away from my mainstay - trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking.
— Erin Brockovich
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
— Emile Zola
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
— Elbert Hubbard
Wherever you are - be all there.
— Jim Elliot
Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
— Jerry West
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
— J. R. Martinez
Don't think, just do.
— Horace
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
— Henry Ford
You will never win if you never begin.
— Helen Rowland
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
— H. G. Wells
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
— Golda Meir
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
— George Herbert
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
— Flip Wilson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
— Epictetus
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
— Emanuel Steward
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
— Eliza Dushku
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
— Eileen Caddy
If you've got a talent, protect it.
— Jim Carrey
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
— James Rollins
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
— J. D. Salinger
One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
— Herman Cain
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
— Henry Drummond
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
— Helen Keller
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
— H. L. Hunt
The Gunnar Challenge offers new workouts every day, a meal plan and daily 'verbal vitamins,' which are a motivational video or workout tip. The thing that really makes the program work is the forum, where Challengers can communicate with each other and with me.
— Gunnar Peterson
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
— George Whitefield
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.
— George Groves
My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.
— Fran Kirby
Either move or be moved.
— Ezra Pound
Only the educated are free.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
— Elon Musk
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
