Motivation Quotes

"Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning, the devil says ‘Oh crap … they’re up!’"

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"We do today what they won’t, so tomorrow we can accomplish what they can’t."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes."

- Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced"

- Vincent van Gogh

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You don’t need to see the whole staircase; just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

""Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.""

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"What would the hero of your life's movie do right now? Do that!"

- Joe Rogan

"Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing."

- John C. Maxwell

"For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

- Jack Canfield

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"Work isn't work unless you would rather be doing something else."

- Don Shula

"Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do."

- Nadia Comaneci

"I am ready to be a winner I deserve to be a winner I am destined to be a winner I am determined to be a winner From this day forth all I know is winning"

- Eric Thomas

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters"

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"A great defensive play is worth about five points in emotion."

- Caren Kemner

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care."

- James Caan

"True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential"

- Rick Pitino

"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."

- Jack Kerouac

"Heart is what separates the good from the great"

- Michael Jordan

"Coaches shouldn't have to push you to work hard, you should push yourself to work hard because you want to be a great player"

- Bobby Knight

"The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else"

- Don Meyer

"Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But Ride."

- Eddy Merckx