465 Motivational Quotes to Keep the Fire Burning
Hang tough! Herein we present 450+ of the best motivational quotes out there. May these quotes prove helpful and worthy. If they do, please share widely. And may you kick butt and take names on all the obstacles you encounter today. Wishing you a productive, happy, and successful day!
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats -- maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats -- but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
Study while others are sleeping;
work while others are loafing;
prepare while others are playing;
and dream while others are wishing.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
We must train from the inside out. Using our strengths to attack and nullify any weaknesses. It's not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Motivate yourself and commit to being better as each decade of your life passes by; Live what you teach; do what you promise to do.
Success isn't given. It's earned. In the kitchen, in the gym, in the workout, all day. With blood, sweat, and the occasional tear.
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:
1. Be forward thinking
2. Be inventive, and daring
3. Do the right thing
4. Be honest and straight forward
5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow
6. Work hard and be yourself
7. Lead by example.

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are enough.

Everyday presents a new opportunity to grow and press forward to your success. Stay the course believing that where you are right now doesn't matter, as long as you are moving in the right direction.
The 7 Steps to Transformation:
1. Dream it.
2. Envision it.
3. Think it.
4. Grow it.
5. Become it.
6. Live it.
7. OWN it.
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
If you continue to think they way you've always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.
