Best 15461 quotes in «motivational quotes» category

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we are going to need time'.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs.  If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

If I fall in love with a woman, that’s awesome. If I fall in love with a man, that’s awesome. As long as you fall in love… It’s like organic food. I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

If I go to a match it doesn't mean I want to buy the stadium or the club.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me.

If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems.

If I'm going to get in these races and run against the best guys, I'm going to be there with them. And if I die, then I die, but I'm not going to walk away from the track saying, 'I didn't give everything.' Ever again.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

If it's not broken, tinker with it till you find out how it works.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.