Motivational Coaching Quotes

The power of words is truly amazing! When you start on a journey it really feels good to read words that capture your imagination; these are some thought arousing and coaching quotes that have caught my eye.

I'd also like to share with you other motivational quotes that I've read through the years and that have had an impact in my life; I cherish the wisdom that I've learned, some people have a way with words.

Let yourself be inspired!

Bob Zuppke

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

Mary Englebreit

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

Charles R. Swindoll



“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

Maria Robinson

"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."

Václav Havel

"Act now. For now is all you have."

Og Mandino

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Ben Stein

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."

Steven Covey



"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

Lucille Ball

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Claude M. Bristol

"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are."

Ara Parasheghian



“Effective leadership coaching can happen on the dance floor of conversation.”

John G. Agno

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Leonardo Davinci

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

Oprah Winfrey

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