Motivational Quotes - Complete Martial Arts.com

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."
- Maxwell Maltz

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."
- Napoleon Hill

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
- Zig Ziglar

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
- Anthony Robbins

"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
- Napoleon Hill

"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most"
- Robert Kiyosaki

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
- Marianne Williamson

"The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment."
- Marianne Williamson

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
- Dale Carnegie

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
- Napoleon Hill

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
- Zig Ziglar

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
- Napoleon Hill

"Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther."
- Zig Ziglar

"Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice."
- Stuart Wilde

"Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all."
- David R. Hawkins

"All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust."
- Dale Carnegie

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow"
- Robert Kiyosaki

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
- Zig Ziglar

"Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
- Anthony Robbins

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
- Dale Carnegie

"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."
- Anthony Robbins

"Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are."
- David R. Hawkins

"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come."
- Denis Waitley

"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence."
- Denis Waitley

"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."
- Napoleon Hill

"It�s not what you are that holds you back, it�s what you think you are not."
- Denis Waitley

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- Colin Powell

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it � as long as you really believe a 100 percent."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience."
- Harold Ruopp

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement."
- William Arthur Ward

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through."
- F. W. Nichol

"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
- Brian Tracy

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."
- William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

"You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself."
- W. Clement Stone

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."
- George E. Allen

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak and esteem to all."

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
- The Dalai Lama

"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."
- Mother Teresa

"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions..."
- W. Clement Stone

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
- Napoleon Hill

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
- Richard M. DeVos

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
- Tom Blandi

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
- Ben Stein

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin."
- Robert Collier

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
- E.M. Gray

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale

"This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything."
- Scott Reed

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
- Anthony Robbins

"Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
- Dr. David Burns

"Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
- Napoleon Hill

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket."
- Andrew Carnegie

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
- John Maxwell

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."
- Napoleon Hill

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford

"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do."

"Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us."
- Stephen Covey

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them."

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets."
- Nido Qubein

"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.."
- Mark Victor Hansen

"View every problem as an opportunity."
- Joseph Sugarman

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
- Wayne Dyer

"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."
- Denis Waitley

"Everyone who has achieved financial independence will tell you that - at least in the early days -- you have to work smarter and harder. The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance. There are no shortcuts."
- John Cummuta

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
- Napoleon Hill

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"
- Lee Iacocca

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
- Napoleon Hill

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
- Dale Carnegie

"Whats's going on in the inside shows on the outside."
- Earl Nightingale

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
- Napoleon Hill

"The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich."
- David Bach

"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
- Mark Victor Hansen

"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."
- Michael E. Gerber

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
- Les Brown

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
- Wayne Dyer

"How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%."
- Vic Conant

"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."
- Les Brown

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
- Wayne Dyer

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
- Warren Buffett

"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."
- Sir John Templeton

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
- Les Brown

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."
- Brian Tracy

"A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on."
- Tom Morris

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."
- Deepak Chopra

"Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees."
- Tom Gegax

"If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved."
- Vic Conant

"Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially."
- David Bach

"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
- Mark Victor Hansen

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
- Dale Carnegie

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
- Dale Carnegie

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
- Denis Waitley

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."
- Brian Tracy