• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

    Confucius

    It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

    Confucius

  • Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

    Samuel Beckett

  • It always seems impossible until its done

    Nelson Mandela

  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

    Thomas A. Edison

  • Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Til your good is better and your better is best

    St. Jerome

  • If youre going through hell, keep going

    Winston Churchill

  • A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week

    George S. Patton

  • Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future, act now, without delay

    Simone de Beauvoir

    Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future, act now, without delay

    Simone de Beauvoir

  • Quality is not an act, it is a habit

    Aristotle

  • Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

    Norman Vincent Peale

  • You cant wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club

    Jack London

  • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence

    Helen Keller

  • Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it

    Charles R. Swindoll

  • If you can dream it, you can do it

    Walt Disney

  • What you do today can improve all your tomorrows

    Ralph Marston

    What you do today can improve all your tomorrows

    Ralph Marston

  • Either I will find a way, or I will make one

    Philip Sidney

  • Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can

    Arthur Ashe

  • When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor

    Elon Musk

  • Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground

    Theodore Roosevelt

  • Either you run the day or the day runs you

    Jim Rohn

  • Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step

    Lao Tzu

  • Well done is better than well said

    Benjamin Franklin

    Well done is better than well said

    Benjamin Franklin

  • Dont watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going

    Sam Levenson

  • With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts

    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • The most effective way to do it, is to do it

    Amelia Earhart

  • Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do

    Pope John XXIII

  • You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water

    Rabindranath Tagore

  • Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Set your goals high, and dont stop till you get there

    Bo Jackson

    Set your goals high, and dont stop till you get there

    Bo Jackson

  • Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other

    Walter Elliot

  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started

    Mark Twain

  • I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse

    Florence Nightingale

  • There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thats your own self

    Aldous Huxley

  • When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible

    Dalai Lama

  • You just cant beat the person who never gives up

    Babe Ruth

    You just cant beat the person who never gives up

    Babe Ruth

  • What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals

    Zig Ziglar

  • If you fell down yesterday, stand up today

    H. G. Wells

  • No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings

    William Blake

  • The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best

    Epictetus

  • Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible

    Tony Robbins

  • Your talent is Gods gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God

    Leo Buscaglia

  • Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl

    Benjamin Jowett

    Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl

    Benjamin Jowett

  • Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious

    Stephen Hawking

  • In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can

    Nikos Kazantzakis

  • I dont believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be

    Ken Venturi

  • Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines

    Robert H. Schuller

  • Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star

    W. Clement Stone

  • Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, its always your choice

    Wayne Dyer

  • Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

    Og Mandino

    Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

    Og Mandino

  • I am not afraid… I was born to do this

    Joan of Arc

  • We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated

    Maya Angelou

  • Things do not happen. Things are made to happen

    John F. Kennedy

  • A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others

    Ayn Rand

  • Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love

    Don Miguel Ruiz

  • Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does

    William James

  • Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along

    George Herbert

    Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along

    George Herbert

  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream

    Les Brown

  • Leap, and the net will appear

    John Burroughs

  • You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead

    George Lucas

  • Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking

    William Butler Yeats

  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph

    Thomas Paine

  • Never complain and never explain

    Benjamin Disraeli

  • You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do

    Henry Ford

    You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do

    Henry Ford

  • Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • I can, therefore I am

    Simone Weil

  • The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power

    Unknown

  • Dont think, just do

    Horace

  • Infuse your life with action. Dont wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth

    Bradley Whitford

  • The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something

    Muhammad Iqbal

  • Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open

    Pauline Kael

    Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open

    Pauline Kael

  • March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on lifes path

    Khalil Gibran

  • There is always room at the top

    Daniel Webster

  • If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success

    John D. Rockefeller

  • The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name

    Sylvia Browne

  • One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals

    Michael Korda

  • You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win

    Ted Turner

  • Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door

    Kyle Chandler

    Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door

    Kyle Chandler

  • Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me

    Carol Burnett

  • We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us

    A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  • Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

    Woodrow Wilson

  • Do you want to know who you are? Dont ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you

    Thomas Jefferson

  • I know where Im going and I know the truth, and I dont have to be what you want me to be. Im free to be what I want

    Muhammad Ali

  • Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another

    John Dewey

    Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another

    John Dewey

  • I learned that we can do anything, but we cant do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything

    Dan Millman

  • Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th

    Julie Andrews

  • Follow your inner moonlight; dont hide the madness

    Allen Ginsberg

  • Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it

    Oprah Winfrey

  • You will never win if you never begin

    Helen Rowland

  • Even if you fall on your face, youre still moving forward

    Victor Kiam

  • Every exit is an entry somewhere else

    Tom Stoppard

    Every exit is an entry somewhere else

    Tom Stoppard

  • To begin, begin

    William Wordsworth

  • You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life

    H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  • Wherever you are – be all there

    Jim Elliot

  • The will to succeed is important, but whats more important is the will to prepare

    Bobby Knight

  • Ive found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often

    Brian Tracy

  • No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one

    Jessica Savitch

  • Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – theres so little competition

    Elbert Hubbard

    Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – theres so little competition

    Elbert Hubbard

  • A will finds a way

    Orison Swett Marden

  • We aim above the mark to hit the mark

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself

    Mark Caine

  • I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life

    Dean Koontz

  • There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves

    Richard Rorty

  • If you want to conquer fear, dont sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

    Dale Carnegie

  • Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds

    Gordon B. Hinckley

    Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds

    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • The more things you do, the more you can do

    Lucille Ball

  • If you dont ask, you dont get

    Stevie Wonder

  • Expect problems and eat them for breakfast

    Alfred A. Montapert

  • After a storm comes a calm

    Matthew Henry

  • If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud

    Emile Zola

  • Always desire to learn something useful

    Sophocles

  • Be gentle to all and stern with yourself

    Saint Teresa of Avila

    Be gentle to all and stern with yourself

    Saint Teresa of Avila

  • Do something wonderful, people may imitate it

    Albert Schweitzer

  • Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

    Peter Marshall

  • Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now

    Denis Waitley

  • Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work

    H. L. Hunt

  • The people who influence you are the people who believe in you

    Henry Drummond

  • God always strives together with those who strive

    Aeschylus

  • He conquers who endures

    Persius

    He conquers who endures

    Persius

  • Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination

    Carl von Clausewitz

  • Step by step and the thing is done

    Charles Atlas

  • Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting

    Christopher Morley

  • We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. Its never your fault. But its always your fault, because if you wanted to change youre the one who has got to change

    Katharine Hepburn

  • Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it

    Diane Sawyer

  • Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way

    Eileen Caddy

  • The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future

    Philip Emeagwali

    The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future

    Philip Emeagwali

  • Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle

    Sasha Cohen

  • A goal is a dream with a deadline

    Napoleon Hill

  • They can conquer who believe they can

    Virgil

  • Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you

    George Whitefield

  • It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are

    Malala Yousafzai

  • What is called genius is the abundance of life and health

    Henry David Thoreau

  • If youve got a talent, protect it

    Jim Carrey

    If youve got a talent, protect it

    Jim Carrey

  • Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand

    Baruch Spinoza

  • Ive worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down

    Mia Hamm

  • One finds limits by pushing them

    Herbert A. Simon

  • I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world

    Judy Collins

  • Motivation will almost always beat mere talent

    Norman Ralph Augustine

  • Be thine own palace, or the worlds thy jail

    John Donne

  • How do you know youre going to do something, untill you do it

    J. D. Salinger

    How do you know youre going to do something, untill you do it

    J. D. Salinger

  • You cant expect to hit the jackpot if you dont put a few nickels in the machine

    Flip Wilson

  • Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself

    Swami Sivananda

  • You have to make it happen

    Denis Diderot

  • Dont give up. Dont lose hope. Dont sell out

    Christopher Reeve

  • The more we do, the more we can do

    William Hazlitt

  • To know oneself, one should assert oneself

    Albert Camus

  • Never give in and never give up

    Hubert H. Humphrey

    Never give in and never give up

    Hubert H. Humphrey

  • Deserve your dream

    Octavio Paz

  • When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder

    Natalie Gulbis

  • Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life

    Jimmy Dean

  • Dont fight the problem, decide it

    George C. Marshall

  • The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him

    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune

    Tecumseh

  • Go big or go home. Because its true. What do you have to lose

    Eliza Dushku

    Go big or go home. Because its true. What do you have to lose

    Eliza Dushku

  • You create your opportunities by asking for them

    Shakti Gawain

  • The dog that trots about finds a bone

    Golda Meir

  • There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move

    Edgar Cayce

  • To be a good loser is to learn how to win

    Carl Sandburg

  • Many are called but few get up

    Oliver Herford

  • In motivating people, youve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved

    Rupert Murdoch

  • You never know what motivates you

    Cicely Tyson

    You never know what motivates you

    Cicely Tyson

  • Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • True happiness involves the full use of ones power and talents

    John W. Gardner

  • Either move or be moved

    Ezra Pound

  • The wise does at once what the fool does at last

    Baltasar Gracian

  • Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it

    Phillips Brooks

  • Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going

    Norman Cousins

  • Do whatever you do intensely

    Robert Henri

    Do whatever you do intensely

    Robert Henri

  • To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life

    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • I am not a has-been. I am a will be

    Lauren Bacall

  • When one must, one can

    Charlotte Whitton

  • The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, its time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book

    James Rollins

  • One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low

    Thomas Fuller

  • I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat

    Rose Kennedy

  • Ive always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

    Beverly Sills

    Ive always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up

    Beverly Sills

  • I was motivated to be different in part because I was different

    Donna Brazile

  • I come to win

    Leo Durocher

  • If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much

    Jim Rohn

  • The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence

    Confucius

  • Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later

    Og Mandino

  • Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory

    George S. Patton

  • If you think you can do it, you can

    John Burroughs

    If you think you can do it, you can

    John Burroughs

  • There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living

    Nelson Mandela

  • The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing

    Walt Disney

  • Never, never, never give up

    Winston Churchill

  • By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

    Benjamin Franklin

  • If you dont like how things are, change it! Youre not a tree

    Jim Rohn

  • Only the educated are free

    Epictetus

  • Theres a way to do it better – find it

    Thomas A. Edison

    Theres a way to do it better – find it

    Thomas A. Edison

  • Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster

    Theodore Roosevelt

  • Id rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed

    Robert H. Schuller

  • Go for it now. The future is promised to no one

    Wayne Dyer

  • Its always too early to quit

    Norman Vincent Peale

  • Hitch your wagon to a star

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else

    Unknown

  • Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing

    Thomas Jefferson

    Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing

    Thomas Jefferson

  • We make the world we live in and shape our own environment

    Orison Swett Marden

  • Begin to be now what you will be hereafter

    William James

  • Who seeks shall find

    Sophocles

  • Know or listen to those who know

    Baltasar Gracian

  • The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large

    Confucius

  • Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again

    Og Mandino

  • A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did

    John Burroughs

    A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did

    John Burroughs

  • You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals

    George S. Patton

  • Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins

    Jim Rohn

  • Ive heard a lot of motivational speakers throughout the years

    Jason Kelce

  • Fear of failure, its the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me

    Jerry West

  • People say dream big, thats kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it

    Jim Nantz

  • Music – its motivational and just makes you relax

    Taika Waititi

  • People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but thats just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music

    Lenny Kravitz

    People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but thats just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music

    Lenny Kravitz

  • Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too

    Giorgio Chiellini

  • Im completely honest with everyone I deal with. I genuinely care about people. I want to see people succeed and be the best that they can be. So, I wanted to write a motivational book about life, love and the pursuit of happiness

    Bruce Buffer

  • I love people who Instagram story themselves running and theyll tag me or theyll send me a message and theyll be like, Wow this is so motivational and so inspirational

    Andi Dorfman

  • I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles

    Marianne Vos

  • We need to accept that the commandments of God arent just a long list of good ideas. They arent life hacks from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board

    Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  • Im a wrestler with nine toes. Im a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, You never quit. You keep coming back

    Rulon Gardner

  • I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I dont really consider myself that at all

    Andy Andrews

    I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I dont really consider myself that at all

    Andy Andrews

  • I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, dont accept your limitations, jump before youre pushed, leap before you look

    Louise Mensch

  • Ive a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various womens issues around the world – like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do

    Martina Navratilova

  • Ive always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. Youre trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what thats about so you can represent it

    Edward Norton

  • Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression

    Leonard Mlodinow

  • I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but its motivational. I like old heavy metal when Im outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me

    Peter Steele

  • I cant put this down. Im reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on

    Bojan Krkic

  • Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I cant play this game forever. When Im finished, maybe Ill become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome

    Ed Reed

  • My mum was massively important to everything Ive done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me

    Fran Kirby

  • People always need to hear good motivational speeches

    Rudy Ruettiger

  • Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesnt need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesnt need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants – his personality is synonymous with success

    Toni Kroos

  • You hope to bring your A Game to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills

    Edwin van der Sar

  • There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe

    John M. Grunsfeld

  • I have never moved away from my mainstay – trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking

    Erin Brockovich

  • I make goals that are motivational, that are specific, that are realistic

    Morten Andersen

  • Coy Wire played in the NFL for 9 years and is now a motivational speaker and has a book out called Change Your Mind. He is an amazing person with such positive energy! When Kroy and I first met and started dating, there werent a whole lot of people that supported us, but Coy always did

    Kim Zolciak-Biermann

  • Im on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too

    Shreyas Iyer

  • Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey

    Nina Tassler

  • My first book was called, Mountain, Get Out of My Way, where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other peoples lives and trying to be motivational

    Montel Williams

  • Im not one for those motivational speeches. Ive always been more of an example guy

    Carey Price

  • I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television

    Dominique Dawes

  • Church is definitely still present in my life. Every Sunday Im tuned in and then throughout the week I read scriptures, I read motivational messages

    Robert Covington

  • Im able to do motivational speaking all over the world and do so many positive things with my life because of my journey and the battles Ive fought. Without cancer, I would have never had some of these opportunities, and I wouldnt be the man I am today

    Daniel Jacobs

  • Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs

    Woody Hayes

  • I find that as an athlete, we dont get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference

    Justin Gatlin

  • The people that are feeding you the information on things that I like – love life, believe in yourself, be motivational, give your time to things and meditate – theyre all older people who are well into their 50s and have had careers, and for me, at this point, Im the young ambassador for this whole lifestyle of making your mentality a reality

    Mod Sun

  • I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled how to be a motivational speaker

    Lizzie Velasquez

  • The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic to highfalutin. And they paid me well once the magazine was unionized. Getting paid is motivational

    Robert Christgau

  • After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows

    Eddie the Eagle

  • Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesnt mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes

    Drew Barrymore

  • Before I play matches Im always switching myself on. Thats why I have that walk-on music – Two Steps From Hell – they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on Im switched on and Im ready for a brawl

    Neil Robertson

  • The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television

    Bettany Hughes

  • I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure

    Emanuel Steward

  • I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational

    Ryan Howard

  • Speeches? I dont ever feel like Im giving a speech. I dont look at myself as a motivational speaker

    Jim Harbaugh

  • Im a motivational speaker, so Im going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible

    Harris Faulkner

  • I want to build a legacy at the WWE, but I definitely want to continue to grow the Bella Empire. I want it to go beyond the ring. I would love to be a motivational speaker

    Nikki Bella

  • Im thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. Ive always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too

    Khloe Kardashian

  • Sometimes Ill put on a Zig Ziglar tape: hes a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but Im too cynical

    Laila Rouass

  • One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker – an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. Thats what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed

    Herman Cain

  • Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it

    George Groves

  • As long as Im not selling out the people that ride or die with me, Im glad Im not an MC. Im a motivational speaker. Im not that rapper dude

    Young Jeezy

  • The Gunnar Challenge offers new workouts every day, a meal plan and daily verbal vitamins, which are a motivational video or workout tip. The thing that really makes the program work is the forum, where Challengers can communicate with each other and with me

    Gunnar Peterson

  • One of the hidden benefits of me being a student manager at Kentucky was me having the responsibility of driving Rick Pitino to his motivational speaking engagements

    Frank Vogel

  • Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme

    Daniel H. Pink

  • Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, thats always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then thats what you are

    Keke Palmer

  • You cannot compare Pep to any Brazilian coach. If you put all Brazilian coaches together, you would get Pep. One has motivational skills, another is tactically strong. But Pep has it all

    Douglas Costa

  • Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers

    ALelia Bundles

  • Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers

    Amy Waldman

  • I have given motivational speeches at IIT and other well-known establishments. I want to appeal to the people, and therefore, I talk from the heart

    Sangram Singh

  • I used to watch a lot of motivational films and videos to remain positive

    S. Sreesanth

  • I dont know what its like to have a typical father figure. Hes not the dad whos going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but hes such a motivational person

    Tiffany Trump

  • Marvins Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone

    Marvin Sapp

  • Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe

    Tina Brown

  • My father is my true inspiration. Hes a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me

    Tridha Choudhury

  • Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet

    Zig Ziglar

  • I started doing motivational tours. Ive seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We dont introspect as much as we should

    Anupam Kher

  • Im going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what Ive learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life

    J. R. Martinez

  • Its definitely a motivational factor, becoming a three-organization world champion

    Benson Henderson

  • I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers

    Jordan Burroughs

  • A lot of motivational speakers – players, coaches, or whatever – they kind of speak in these kind of age-old mantras, or cliches or whatnot. Kobe was very much not like that

    Jason Kelce

  • Nobody is guaranteed tomorrow, but why not have goals that are cool and motivational

    Morten Andersen

  • Motivational speaking became my career. Who would ever have thought it

    Rudy Ruettiger

  • One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called Justins list of things to do before he kicks the bucket. I wrote it for myself and shortened it to Justins Bucket List. It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well

    Justin Zackham

  • Stoking fears of a potential shutdown is a strong motivational tool to get members on board with legislation that they dont want to support. Both parties are guilty of this

    Mark Meadows

  • Im a motivational speaker

    Young Jeezy

  • I was a motivational speaker and Ive been in front of crowds a lot and Im very comfortable with that

    Bruce Buffer

  • The Duke family, those are my brothers, and its something Ill always take with me. Coach K, he gives me a lot of motivational things and checks in on me and my family. He knows where my heart is

    Brandon Ingram

  • I told myself that I wanted to be a motivational speaker, I wanted to write a book, graduate college, have my own family, and have my own career

    Lizzie Velasquez

  • My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes

    Alia Bhatt