Motivational Quotes to Keep the Fire Burning
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If you continue to think they way you've always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

Nothing is given. Everything is earned.

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.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.

Living well is the best revenge. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

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.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Show them what crazy dreams can do.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

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.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Don't worry about looking good -- worry about achieving your goals.

You don't drown by falling in water; you drown by staying there.

If at first you don't succeed -- try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand.

Obstacles are the cost of greatness.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Always desire to learn something useful.

I never look back, I look forward.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

You don't discover your place in the world. You carve it out.

Motivate yourself enough times to do something and it will become discipline over time. Practice until it's automatic and you will become consistent regardless of what you think or feel. Discipline is the transformation of motivation into habit.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does, that makes you a winner right there.

The more we do, the more we can do.

You are capable of amazing things.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Do the unusual and you'll achieve the impossible.

Be the best you everyday, get better every new day.

You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.

Step by step and the thing is done.

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed -- by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

You will never win if you never begin.

One finds limits by pushing them.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn't find you, you find it.

Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

After a storm comes a calm.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

Everything is possible in this life.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I'm passionate about, that's when it came to me.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.