Motivational Quotes for Ourselves and Others

I have always enjoyed motivational quotes. In fact, my FranklinCovey Planner has quotes at the top of each page; sitting there ready for me to fan through the pages to read or use without having to search through books or websites.

Throughout my life I have turned to the quotes of others for words to express my feelings or thoughts. Others words have often help me get things into perspective; or captured in a succinct way to collect an array of thoughts or feelings.

On almost every page of this website you will see quotes interjected at what I think are appropriate places. So, for your convenience, I have placed all the quotes together in a few pages. Actually, I think this my favorited part of the whole website.

Firefighters often find themselves in need of opening lines for when we give public fire safety talks or interviews on live television. I've found that when I say something profound - whether something original or from someone more notable or famous.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
— John C. Maxwell

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
- Robert Schuller

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Loncoln

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
- Thomas Fuller

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
- Paul J. Meyer

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.
- Robert Kyosaki

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
- Henry Ford

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
- Edward B. Butler

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

The more you try, the greater your chances of succeeding. The law of averages is on your side.Taking a risk is often the first necessary step towards success. If you don't take some risks, you won't get the chance to succeed.
- Author Unknown -

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the world!
- Joel Arthur Barker

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt -

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
- Bill Myer

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
- Nigerian Proverb

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
- Allard Lowenstein

Sometimes a hello and a smile to let you know everything is OK, is all you need to get you through the day.
- found on Facebook from a Friend

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
- Napoleon Hill

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
- Proverbs

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter.
- Lee Iacocca, twentieth-century businessman

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