Motivation & Goals Quotes

If you are going through hell, keep going.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.

Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Don't look back; they may be gaining on you.

You can�t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

He is able who thinks he is able.

He is able who thinks he is able.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Imagine what you desire. Will what you imagine. Create what you will.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.

We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

All our dreams can come true --if we have the courage to pursue them.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.