Archive for the “Motivational Quotes” Category

• Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait… they are captured by those who dare to attack. ~ Paul J. Meyer
• Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. ~ Denis Waitley
• Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ~ Anthony Robbins
• Determination that just won’t quit — that’s what it takes. ~ AJ Foyt
• Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. ~ Paul J. Meyer
• Determine your future now by taking hold of every opportunity. ~ Debbye Turner
• Goals determine what you’re going to be. ~ Julius Erving
• He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
• If you are determined — just do it! ~ Italian Proverb
• If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. ~ Les Brown
• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. ~ Man Ray
• Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination. ~ Charles Swindle
• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ~ George Eliot
• Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. ~ Author Unknown
• The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. ~ Tommy Lasorda
• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. ~ Vince Lombardi
• The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• There is one quality more important than know-how…. This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. ~ Norbert Weiner
• To him who is determined it remains only to act. ~ Italian Proverb
• We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ~ Jesse Owens
• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ~ Confucius
• You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. ~ W. Clement Stone
• Your habits will determine your quality of life. ~ Denis Waitley
• You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~ George Lorimer

• An unfailing success plan: at each day’s end, write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and DO them. No planning will work unless we take action.~ Author Unknown
• Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.~ Frank Gifford
• Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.~ Les Brown
• Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.~ Tennessee Williams
• Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.~ Frederick Hudson Ecker
• Family is the most important thing in the world.~ Princess Diana
• I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.~ Bill Veeck
• In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.~ Les Brown
• I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.~ Billie Jean King
• I think the inner person is the most important…. I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That’s what is important.~ Julia Child
• Keep a good heart. That’s the most important thing in life. It’s not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.~ Joni Mitchell
• Learning and teaching are two of the most important functions in life; just as loving and being loved are important.~ Baybars Tek Omer
• Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.~ Jodie Foster
• Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.~ George Bernard Shaw
• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.~ Dale Carnegie
• One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow.~ Les Brown
• Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.~ Denis Waitley
• Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.~ William Feather
• The beginning is the most important part of the work.~ Plato
• The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.~ Nelson Boswell
• The little things are infinitely the most important.~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.~ Allan Bloom

• The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. ~ David O. McKay
• The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.~ Sir Humphrey Davy
• The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.~ Simone Weil
• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.~ Andre Maurois
• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.~ Theodore Roosevelt
• The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.~ Bruce Barton
• The most important thing about goals is having one.~ Geoffrey F. Abert
• The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. ~ Francie Larrieu Smith
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.~ Theodore M. Hesburgh
• The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ~ Sidney J. Harris
• The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.~ Peter F. Drucker
• The most important thing in marriage is not happiness, but stability.~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now. ~ Author Unknown
• The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.~ Sir William Bragg
• The most important thing is to know that you can do it.~ Robert G. Allen
• The most important things in life are free, but the second best are expensive.~ Author Unknown
• The most important things in life aren’t things.~ Author Unknown
• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.~ Frank A. Clark
• The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: “Never hurt anybody.” ~ Denis Breeze
• The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.~ Harry Harrison
• There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.~ John Wooden
• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.~ Samuel Butler
• When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.~ Oscar Wilde

• A fool only wins the first game.~ Danish Proverb
• After all, harming others means you first harm yourself.~ Chinese Proverb
• All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.~ Ernest Hemingway
• All things at first appear difficult.~ Chinese Proverb
• A priest blesses his own bread first.~ Greek Proverb
• A woman’s first advice is her best.~ German Proverb
• Be first in the field, the last to the couch.~ Chinese Proverb
• Before you can score you must first have a goal.~ Greek Proverb
• Better the first of its kind than the last.~ Greek Proverb
• Better the second husband of a widow than the first.~ French Proverb
• Confession is the first step to repentance.~ English Proverb
• Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.~ Mark Twain
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.~ Stephen Covey
• Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
• First deserve, and then desire.~ English Proverb
• First food, then religion.~ Afghan Proverb
• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.~ Mohandas Gandhi
• Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.~ Mark Twain
• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.~ Abraham Lincoln
• He that would the daughter win Must with the mother first begin.~ English Proverb
• He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.~ Bosnian Proverb
• He who walks alone shall surely arrive first.~ Arabian Proverb
• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.~ Thomas Jefferson
• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.~ English Proverb
• If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.~ Hebrew Proverb
• If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.~ Greek Proverb
• If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.~ Lao Tzu
• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.~ Oscar Wilde
• In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.~ Jimi Hendrix
• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.~ Mark Twain
• In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.~ English Proverb
• I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.~ Benjamin Franklin
• It is only the first bottle that is expensive.~ French Proverb
• Let him that would move the world first move himself.~ Socrates
• Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!~ Vince Lombardi
• Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.~ Oscar Wilde
• My toughest fight was with my first wife.~ Muhammad Ali
• Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.~ Greek Proverb
• Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.~ Tony Robbins
• Take a woman’s first advice and not her second.~ French Proverb
• The bait tastes first the fish.~ German Proverb
• The child who loves freedom is the first victim of it.~ Bambara Proverb
• The first decision of a woman is the most intelligent and the last decision most dangerous.~ Chinese Proverb
• The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.~ English Proverb
• The first favor is a favor, the second an obligation.~ Chinese Proverb
• The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.~ French Proverb
• The first love letters are written with the eyes.~ French Proverb
• The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.~ Mark Twain
• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.~ Warren Buffett
• The first sin makes the bed for the second.~ Czech Proverb
• The first time you cheat me, be ashamed. The second time it is I who must be ashamed.~ Chinese Proverb
• The first wealth is health.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The first will get the credit, even if the second is better.~ Arabian Proverb
• The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.~ Chinese Proverb
• The point of the needle must pass first.~ Ethiopian Proverb
• There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.~ Confucius
• There has to be a first time for everything — even our most natural habits.~ Arabian Proverb
• Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.~ Chinese Proverb
• Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.~ Chinese Proverb
• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.~ Ayn Rand
• To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless.~ Ted Turner
• When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.~ Chinese Proverb
• You must see first before you can believe.~ Raymond Holliwell
• Your health comes first — you can always hang yourself later.~ Hebrew Proverb

All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little.~Lafcadio Hearn
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.~Garrison Keillor
God is a good worker but He loves to be helped.~ Spanish Proverb
Good work done with bad intentions inevitably leads to failure. That is why one should refrain from evil tendencies. ~Yajur Veda
Good work is seldom an accident It’s done by people who care.~Author Unknown
If you have the inclination to do good work, God will give you the time to do good things.~Sri Sathya Sai Baba
In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the keeping of the commandments.~ Bible quotes
Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. ~ Thorstein Veblen
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.~Edward H. Harriman
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.~ Olive Schreiner
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.~ John Ruskin
Only a good intellect can orient towards good work. ~Rig Veda
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.~Henry L. Doherty
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.~ Elbert Hubbard
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. ~ Lajos Kassak
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.~Elbert Hubbard
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.~Jack Kemp
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.~Dorothy L. Sayers
You have to care. You can’t do good work if you don’t care. That’s not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.~William Albert Allard

• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.~ William Blake
• A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.~ Edward Abbey
• Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.~ The Holy Bible
• Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.~ Roy D. Chapin Jr.
• God always provides what we need, but we must be ready to open our eyes and see it.~ Midrash
• Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.~ Charles Caleb Colton
• He who stands by his point of view, must be ready to suffer hunger.~ Yiddish Proverb
• I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.~ Scotty Bowman
• If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you’ll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.~ Author Unknown
• If you wish for peace be ready for war.~ Traditional Proverb
• I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.~ Jan Carlzon
• Let them do good, and be rich in well-doing. Be ready to give generously and share with others.~ The Holy Bible
• Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.~ Wayne Dyer
• You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.~ Denis Waitley
• Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.~ Louis L’Amour
• The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.~ Marcus Aurelius
• There is no such thing as luck. It’s a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.~ Benjamin Disraeli
• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.~ William James
• When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.~ Bo Schembechler
• Whoever writes a book, should be ready to accept criticism.~ Iraqi Proverb
• You had better be ready to change your mind when needed, or your mind will change you.~ Henry B. Wilson