Motivation Quotes

"So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day to be who I am."

- Kevin Durant

"Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream."

- Emmitt Smith

"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves."

- Mike Ditka

"Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Luck favours the prepared, darling."

- Edna Mode

"If you want something done, give it to a busy man."

- Preston Sturges

"The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.'s mother

"The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today."

- Nolan Bushnell

"Start doing something, you’ll continue.. why? Because motivation doesn’t cause action. Action causes motivation."

- Neil Pasricha

"Pastor, if you want to love neighbor, address the culture, and change the world — stand in a pulpit, open the Word of God, and faithfully preach Christ crucified."

- Dustin Benge

"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity."

- Mary Garden

"The only way to do a lot of work is to make it fun."

- Meir Ezra

"If you have time to whine then you have time to find a solution."

- Dee Dee Artner

""Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.""

- Stephen King

"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."

- Tony Robbins

"You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."

- Seth Godin

"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition–in having put forth the best within you."

- Henry J. Kaiser

"I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year."

- Warren Buffett

"Work hard, have fun, and make history."

- Jeff Bezos

"I don’t want to survive. I want to live."

- Captain

"If I knew the Lord was coming in 3 years, I would spend 2 of them studying and 1 preaching."

- Donald Gray Barnhouse

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do.’"

- Steve Jobs

"Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission."

- Dr. Ralph Tyler

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth.’"

- Dan Rather

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The final buzzer doesn't end the passion; it ignites the hunger for next season."

- Unknown

"Don't worry about getting older, you're just getting closer to being a basketball legend."

- Unknown

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people."