Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

[Mahina]

My perfectionist brain has to remember this lovely quote!

 

 

I have to remember that just because I can't do it perfectly right now, doesn't mean I have to stop!

[Fearkiller]

“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning,

no matter how dull and boring it might seem,

no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star,

a renowned philosopher or a Down’s-syndrome child.

Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others,

both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness

— even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday,

a compliment that engenders a smile—reverberates across great distances and spans of time,

affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo,

because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed,

until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.

Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act,

regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit,

poisoning people whom you have never met and never will. All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined

— those dead, those living, those generations yet to come—that the fate of all is the fate of each,

and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands. Therefore, after every failure,

we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes,

just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength

— to the very survival of the human tapestry.

Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days and thrilling possibilities

are combined always in this momentous day.â€
― Dean Koontz, From the corner of his eye

[ECBlank]

Some fortune cookies I've gotten over the years  that I liked enough to tape to my computer monitor.

 

"Now is the time to try something new."

 

"You'll accomplish more if you start now."

[Jittersthe.Clown]

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
 

[Thetemplarreservist]

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky

 

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -Norman R. Augustine

 

Clear your mind of can’t. -Samuel Johnson

[matty_mcfly]

"I will. I can. I must" - Eric Thomas

 

If you can create fear, you can destroy it. - Unknown & paraphrased

 

"Make a choice. You just decide what its gonna be, who you're gonna be, how you're gonna do it. Just decide" - Will Smith

 

"There's no reason to have a 'Plan B', it only distracts you from Plan A" - Will Smith

[matty_mcfly]

"Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, an hour or a day. Or even a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it'll last forever" - Eric Thomas

[Thetemplarreservist]

My Jobs Career field motto gets me motivated on tough days

 

The Strong Will Stand; The Weak Will Fall By The Wayside!!!  USAF TACP motto

[Vella]

Came across this one again:

 

"Good things come to those who wait ... but only things left by those who hustle" - Internet tells me Lincoln said this.

[Daisygirl]

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."-- Chinese proverb

 

"When it comes down to it, life is a mind game. If you have trained for it, that's 10% of the battle. 90% is to convince yourself you can do the damn thing."-- My dad, just before we went on a 160km bike race

[Fearkiller]

"Be on one's honor: to accept and acknowledge personal responsibility for one's actions"

Dictionary.com

[hawgsquatch]

"If I knew the world were to end tomorrow, I would plant a tree today."

 

-Martin Luther.

[Jittersthe.Clown]

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.†

~Thomas Merton

[Fearkiller]

"You can say sorry a million times, Say "I love you" as much as you want,

say whatever you want, whenever you want.

But if you're not going to prove that the things you say are true,

then don't say anything at all.
Because if you can't show it your words don't mean a thing."

 

 I'll have to try to find an author to this quote. Maybe it is anonymous.

First bumped into it at quotesdump.com, but it seems to be in other

places too.

[insanity]

This video in this article actually has a good message that can be spread through multiple aspects of life.

Basically "You wouldn't talk to others like that, so why do it to yourself?"

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/special-k-39-39-fat-talk-39-ad-205200658.html

[citizenkade]

"Don't believe in you who believes in me, don't believe in me who believes in you, believe in you...who believes in yourself!" -Kamina, Gurren Lagaan

[Chives the Conquerer]

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

- Aristotle

This was written almost two and a half millennia ago and it's as relevant as ever.

[Chives the Conquerer]

"Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of your enormity, O Smaug the Stupendous..."

Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

It really isn't motivational...I just saw the movie last night and it was crazy good. On par with Return of the King!

[Fearkiller]

"Here's my definition of commitment:

If you don't achieve your objective, someone will cut off the index finger of your writing hand below the second knuckle."

- Mimi Donaldson in Negotiating for Dummies

[vengefulpear]

I actually found this quite motivating if it's not been here before...

 

[jfreaksho]

Let us have bigger and better dreams, for they will lead us to bigger and better men.  Brooks Kubik, author of Dinosaur Training

[Flex Luthor]

"The day you started lifting is the day you became forever small because you will never be as big as you want to be." - Dom Mazetti

 

Completely true for me for basically my entire life until recently. Now it's motivational because I no longer want my body image to have so much power over me.

[The Beard]

This is one that I have hanging on my wall (no idea who it's attributed to):

 

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

[TheFourth]

"That's right. I'm going to fuck the fear turkey!"

-Alucard, Hellsing Abridged episode 3

"Pain is just weakness leaving the body"

Judo Gene aka Gene LaBell

[Oramac]

Nothing changes if nothing changes

No idea who said it, but it's a damn good piece of motivation.