Motivation Quotes - Page 4

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.