Motivation & Goals Quotes

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.