Motivational Quotes | Positive Motivational Sayings for Motivation

“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Sieze the day, put no trust in the future)” - Horace

 “The key to happiness is having dreams.  The key to success is making your dreams come true.” -  unknown

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“As the Wind blows, you must set your Sail.” - Thomas Fuller

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Motivational Quotes

Motivational quotes and motivational sayings truly inspire and empower individuals to perform at a highter level.  Sports coaches, business leaders, and Presidents all use positive and inspiring motivational quotes and sayings to deliver a message that resonates with listeners and wills them to act.  Several scientific studies have shown that motivational quotes and messages lead to a positive sense of well being in others.  Explore these positive motivational quotes and sayings to help motivate yourself or share it with others that could use a little motivation. 

 “The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.” - George Eliot

 “Ability is what you’re capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it.” - Lou Holtz

 “It is our duty — as men and women — to behave as though limits to our ability do not exist.  We are collaborators in creation of the Universe.” - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 “The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.” - Edward C. Simmons

 “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” - Booker T. Washington

 “My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success.  She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you.  Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying.  Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” - Helen Hays

 “Act as though it is impossible to fail.” - 

 “If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find.  If I wanted to become a failure I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded.  If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.” - Joseph Marshall Wade

 “You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win.  Horses are like people.  Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.” - Eddie Arcaro

 “The Art of Success  . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude.  It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.  . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated.  It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal.  . . . Success is relative and individual and personal.  It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.” - Wilfred A. Peterson

 “The art of winning in business is in working hard — not taking things too seriously.” - Elbert Green Hubbard

 “I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.” - Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

 “ Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success.  When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a life of all good removed.” -  unknown

 “Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacities.” - Walter Dill Scott

 “Forward, as occasion offers.  Never look round to see whether any shall note it. . . .   Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.” - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

 “Belief in success is the one basic, absolutely essential ingredient in successful people.” - David. J. Schwartz, PhD

 “The biggest block to any man's success is in his head.” -  unknown

 “Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure to sustain him.” - Henry David Thoreau

 “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” - John H. Patterson

 “Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.” -  Ki-Jung Kim

 “Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.” -  unknown