Motivational Quotes - Page 114

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation from suffering and toward peace and compassion, or in the direction of affliction and misery. What is it that we really want deep in our heart? Is it money, fame, power? Or is it finding inner peace, being able to live life fully and enjoy the present moment?

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Whether you say, 'I can' or 'I can't,' you're right either way.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.