Who or what motivates you? Have you ever thought about the things that inspire you? Just when you have it all together and things seem to be going your way, that thing called life side tracks us to the point that we often get discouraged and lose faith in our abilities.
Many of us do not have a strong support group made up of family and friends. So that’s why it is so important to keep close to your heart positive affirmations. Simply put, positive thinking can really determine how you live out your life. Before we can expect others to appreciate us, we have to appreciate ourselves.
That’s why I have thrown together a few motivational quotes from a wide range of well known people. Here you will find quotes from the likes of basketball great Michael Jordan to Winston Churchill. These quotes will surely send you on your way to prosperity, but keep in mind prosperity does not only mean money. It includes love, peace of mind and a spiritual peace.
“You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.”
Michael Johnson
“God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.”
Swedish Proverb
“Act as though it is impossible to fail.”
Anonymous
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe
“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. . . It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider – and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation – persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordan
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else,
you will have succeeded.”
Maya Angelou
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
Joan Crawford
“No, this trick won’t work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
Albert Einstein
“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach. Not failure, but low aim is a sin.”
Dr. Benjamin Mays
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes
“My friends are my estate.”
Emily Dickinson
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
Herbert Spencer
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”
Dick Gregory
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
