29 Best Motivational Quotes for 2009
“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. ”
- Napoleon Hill
“You become what you think about.”
- Earl Nightingale
“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.”
- Tom Blandi
“The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them. ”
- Denis Waitley
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore
“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ”
- Ben Stein
“Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin. ”
- Robert Collier
“The first step to becoming is to will it.”
- Mother Teresa
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
- John Wooden
“Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.”
- Dr. Robert Anthony
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye… The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
- Jacob Bronowski
“When you’re through changing, you’re through.”
-Bruce Barton
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
-William Faulkner
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”
- Walt Disney
“Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.”
- James Allen
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
- St. Francis of Assisi
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
- Helen Keller
“The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong - influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.”
- Roger Birkman
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
- Henry Miller
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
- Calvin Coolidge
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
“What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard
times bravely and cheerfully.”
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. ”
- Richard M. DeVos
“Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain
“To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
- Winston Churchill
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