Motivational Quotes page 7
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
Эрл Уилсон (1934–2005) American baseball player
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Robin Williams (1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian
“Whatever comes or does not come, we men must not be afraid.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive
“Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win is.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive
“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at actually begin to change.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
Walter Elliot (1842–1928) American priest
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“To be and not to be, that is the answer.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
This witticism derived from William Shakespeare's line "To be or not to be; that is the question" in Hamlet, has sometimes been attributed to Hein, but also to many others. The earliest occurrence so far located in research for Wikiquote was published in A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths (1930) by William Marias Malisoff.
Misattributed
“Things change, and they don’t change back.”
Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 488
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
John Barrymore (1882–1942) American actor of stage, screen and radio
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“Don't let things you can't do stop you from doing things you can.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach