Motivation Quotes - Page 10

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Don't count the days, make the days count.

In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You never fail until you stop trying.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.