Selected Motivational Quotes

Sometimes I wake up and I'm fortunate enough to read something that moves me to seize the day; it can be a beautiful poem, a song, a thought, or even a single word.

Motivation comes from the inside and it's expressed many times in the language of words.

Coaching seeks change; through a process of discovery you find change within yourself and carry it forth through action. Motivation is a big part of this process.

These motivational quotes are timeless gifts engraved in the words of people I admire. As you read them; think how you motivate yourself and how this will carry you a step further to realizing your goals.

Lloyd Dobens

“When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.”

Les Brown

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we’re talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

June Jordan

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

Lloyd Alexander

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

Albert Einstein

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”

Buddha

“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.”

John Maxwell

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”

Tom Krause

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

Mark Victor Hansen

"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.'

Confucius

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business.Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."

Og Mandino

"If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think that you dare not, you don't, If you'd like to win, but you think you can't, it's almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost. For out in the world you'll find, success begins with a fellow's will, it's all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed, you are, you've got to think high to rise, you've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can."

Arnold Palmer

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizon are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were."

John F. Kennedy

"Whatever philosophy of life you build, its nature should be to wake one immediately from sleep into a state of full motivation."

Christopher Galtenberg

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily."

Zig Ziglar

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