Famous Motivational Quotes

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare. ~ Lisi Harrison

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~ Ruth Gordon

If you try to do your best there is no failure. ~ Mike Farrell

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~ Robert H. Schuller

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND. ~ Zig Ziglar

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~ Ralph Marston

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen. ~ Mariah Carey

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough Jr.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~ Alfred Tennyson

The future belongs to him that does and dares. ~ Berton Braley

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ~ Zig Ziglar

Growth is grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool. ~ Bill Strickland

Talk a walk with me through nature and let's gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A vicious circle develops in which the people around you expect you to be there for them all the time and comply with their wishes. ~ Auliq Ice

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours! ~ Jennifer O'Neill

Home is where your heart is. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

I wanted to be that,
The one which was vast,
The one which laughed,
The one which surpassed,
Yes, which also collapsed.
True, it was abstract.
I wanted to be that.
I still, want to be that! ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. ~ Gary Oldman

Historically, discoveries of pure science are slow to reach the mainstream compared with those of the applied sciences, which noisily announce themselves with new medicines and gadgets. The Hubble has proved an exception, remaking, in a single generation, the popular conception of the universe. It has accomplished this primarily through the aesthetic force of its discoveries, which distill the difficult abstractions of astrophysics into singular expressions of color and light, vindicating Keats's famous couplet: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." Though philosophy has hardly registered it, the Hubble has given us nothing less than an ontological awakening, a forceful reckoning with what is. The telescope compels the mind to contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite. ~ Ross Andersen

Sometimes you don't choose greatness, it chooses you. And when it does, it requires a certain level of understandin', courage and a degree of blind hope. ~ Jay Grewal

I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that. ~ John Moffitt

Do not
Blame the world.
Find a solution. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The bond of love and the bond of peace keep us together in harmony. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth. ~ Vera Nazarian

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky. ~ Graham Norton

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but you don't really know what they were like before they were famous. ~ Matt Ross

The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famous and busy that I only ever find these insults amusing, and chuckle at them good-naturedly before I get on my private jet to be a UN Ambassador to Cameroon, or wherever. ~ Mindy Kaling

It was never about winning medals or being famous. ~ Nancy Kerrigan

Yet we flatter our strength unduly when we compare it even to a reed stick! For whatever vain men devise and babble concerning these matters is but smoke. Therefore Augustine with good reason often repeats the famous statement that free will is by its defenders more trampled down than strengthened. ~ John Calvin

So why was Kim Kardashian famous? Because she was very good at marketing herself, that was all - and today, that was enough. Corporations are now people and people are now products, known as "brands". At a time when the 1 percent was getting richer, the 99 percent was suddenly trying to Keep up with the Kardashians. ~ Nancy Jo Sales

Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training. ~ Hermann Maier

You will find that there is a struggle to find your dreams. The struggle is to find a way past your fear, your discomfort, anything that makes you hold yourself back, in the pursuit of your dreams. There will always be a struggle in life and through that struggle is success. ~ Avina Celeste

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. ~ Tony Robbins

The greatest virtue a person can have is not the fortune of material goods, but the fortune of intellectual values. This is the only way this world can be a better place. ~ Maria Karvouni

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. ~ Yogi Berra

Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have. ~ Jonah Sachs

Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go. ~ Nicolette Milnes Walker

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness. ~ Rachel Johnson

Rarely has a new player on the game captured so much attention so fast. ~ Auliq Ice

Look, no one wants to hear that maybe she's the reason her mother flew the coop. But my advice to you is to put this behind you. File it away in the drawer that's saved for all the other crap that isn't fair, like how the Kardashians are famous and how good-looking people get served faster at restaurants and how a kid who can't skate to save his life winds up on the varsity hockey team because his dad is the coach. ~ Jodi Picoult

At times in life you must rediscover your footing. ~ Coleen Innis

Better hope deferred than none. ~ Samuel Beckett

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning. ~ John C. Maxwell

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. ~ Dorothy Hamill

Visualization lets you concentrate on all the positive aspects of your game. ~ Curtis Strange

The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day. ~ C.G. Coppola

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate. ~ Ashley Jensen

I remember all of it, not because I meditate on it. No. I remember it because with each step I make toward my goals, I am reminded of how they said I couldn't do it. The more I achieve, the more they are proved wrong, in my mind. It's like motivation. Attacks on your dreams are never forgotten because they become your fuel. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move. ~ Ryan Lilly

If you build a raft, you can cross a river, but if you build a ship, you can cross an ocean. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells. ~ Bruce Oldfield

Your thoughts create you. ~ Iimani David

If men used as much care in uprooting vices and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be so much evil and scandal in the world, or such laxity in religious organizations. On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived. Tell me, where now are all the masters and teachers whom you knew so well in life and who were famous for their learning? Others have already taken their places and I know not whether they ever think of their predecessors. During life they seemed to be something; now they are seldom remembered. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Never complain and never explain. ~ Benjamin Disraeli