MOTIVATION QUOTES

MOTIVATION QUOTES

MQ1. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

MQ2. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

MQ3. There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. - Phyllis Bottome

MQ4. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. - Henry Fielding

MQ5. Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. - John Neal

MQ6. I learn by going where I have to go. - Theodore Roethke

MQ7. Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle

MQ8. But in the mud and scum of things
There always, always something sings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

MQ9. Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

MQ10. For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

MQ11. Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

MQ12. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. - Thomas Watson

MQ13. Knowledge is the food of the soul. - Plato

MQ14. The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. - Henry David Thoreau

MQ15. All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have as an equal opportunity to develop our talents. - John F. Kennedy

MQ16. All the problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, its spines crumble. - William S. Halsey

MQ17. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Miyazawa Kenji

MQ18. I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. - Paul Harvey

MQ19. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. - Vince Lombardi

MQ20. Most people have a desire to look at the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. - John C. Maxwell

MQ21. You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. - Arthur Ashe

MQ22. If we don't change the direction we are going, we are likely to end up where we are heading.

MQ23. Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

MQ24. Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. - Midori Koto

MQ25. We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us. - Billy Graham

MQ26. You win some, you lose some, you wreck some. - Dale Earnhardt

MQ27. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

MQ28. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
- Finley Peter Dunne

MQ29. We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

MQ30. Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset. - Jack Herbert

MQ31. Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
- Lou Holtz

MQ32. They build too low who build beneath the skies

MQ33. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet Braiker

MQ34. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Donald Laird

MQ35. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
- George Van Valkenburg