The following are various motivational quotes and sayings that I hope will either inspire you or at least you will enjoy. I will try to add to this page as frequently as possible.
Although some things may be my own "original thoughts," most will be things I've read or heard somewhere. To the best of my knowledge, all the quotes are stated accurately and the original authors have been credited properly. If you notice any quotes that are duplicates or incorrect, please let me know so I can make the appropriate changes. If you know that the listed source of something is different than I've written, or are yours and you don't want it here, please let me know and I will correct it as soon as I can.
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This page updated on November 1, 2000.
Quotes/Sayings Added on November 1, 2000
It's what you do, not when you do it, that counts. --Dan Zadra
There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you. -- Muhammad Ali
Dreams are renewable. Whether you're five or 105, you have a lifetime ahead of you. -- Rev. Dale Turner
The greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and believing in yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only thing that will ever truly be yours. -- Tiffany Loren Rowe
Every day you sit back and wait for something to happen is another day lost. -- Jennifer Flavin
Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed. -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. -- Peter Drucker
You are an unrepeatable miracle. -- Diane Roger
Everyone has inside him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't yet realize how great you can be! How much you can accomplish! And what your potential is! -- Anne Frank
Failing doesn't make you a failure. Failure is an occurence rather than a person. -- Dick Anderson
The only failure is to grow old and not to have tried. -- Beatrice Colen
Hang in there. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison
Instead of "we almost," let the world say about us, "we did." --Don Ward
Never give up. This may be your moment for a miracle. -- Greg Anderson
If you're going to doubt something, doubt your limits. -- Don Ward
No matter what the statistics say, there's always a way. -- Bernie Siegal
There is no such thing as no chance. -- Henry Ford
What saves a person is to take a step, then another step. -- Antoine DeExupery
"You got yourself this far -- you just got to keep going. -- Don Ward
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when? -- The Talmud
Realize how good you really are. -- Og Mandino
Treat failure as practice shots. -- Deborah McGriff
Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important sometimes. --Richard Bach
Fail? I haven't failed! I now know 3,800 ways not to make an electric storage battery. -- Thomas Edison
Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything. -- Samuel Smiles
Trial and error is the secret sauce of the creative process. By finding out what doesn't work, we eventually discover what does. -- Mistakes Are Great
You failed many times, although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 time, but he also hit 714 home runs. Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't try. -- United Technologies
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot...and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -- Michael Jordan
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. -- Miles Davis
What convinces is conviction. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
How do you want to be remembered? -- Kobi Yamada
Close your eyes and imagine that you are being interviewed on your 100th birthday. What are the five top things you would love to be able to tell the reporters that you have accomplished? Now open your eyes and write them down. You have a fresh start on life! -- EDGE Keynote
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. -- Charles D. Gill
A boy found an eagle's egg and he put it in the nest of a prairie chicken. The eagle hatched and thought he was a chicken. He grew up doing what prairie chickens do--scratching at the dirt for food and flying short distances with a noisy fluttering of wings. It was a dreary life. Gradually the eagle grew old and bitter. One day he and his prairie chicken friend saw a beautiful bird soaring on the currents of air, high above the mountains. "Oh, I wish I could fly like that!" said the eagle. The chicken replied, "Don't give it another thought. That's the mighty eagle, the king of all birds--you could never be like him!" And the eagle didn't give it another thought. He went on cackling and complaining about life. He died thinking he was a prairie chicken. My friend, you too were born an eagle. The Creator intended you to be an eagle, so don't listen to the prairie chickens! -- Native American Legend
Life is about turning the things you really want to do into the things you've done. -- Smart Start
Quotes/sayings through October 2000:
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. -- Mao Tse-Tung
Persistence, not perfection, is what's important.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." -- Confucious
Waste it or waist it!
Your choice: Do you want to be thin or fat? Then choose your actions accordingly.
When it becomes more painful to suffer than to change... you will change.
Success requires constant desire and true commitment.
There is only one way to do something. And that's to do it.
Only you control the hand your fork is in.
Choose to lose, not abuse.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments. -- Napoleon Hill
Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one element of truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans - that moment one commits oneself, then providence moves all. -- Anonymous
It's never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -- Samuel Smiles
Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal. -- Tom Bradley
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed. -- Curly Howard
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -- Walter Elliott
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -- Margaret Thatcher
There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. -- Brian Hays
You are never a loser until you quit trying. -- Mike Ditka
The only way to overcome is to hang in. -- Dan O'Brien
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. -- Helen Keller
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes
Never, never, never, never give up. -- Winston Churchill
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