Motivational and personal growth quotes and sayings that convey thoughts, feelings and meanings.

Motivational

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up, he needs education to turn him around. - Jim Rohn

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper "yes!" burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important. - Stephen R. Covey

Relationship

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes. - Deepak Chopra

We have hit-and-run relationships, often leaving broken bodies and broken lives strewn along the path. - Stephen R. Covey

Marriage

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. - H. L. Mencken

A man, proceeding from his known self, likes a woman because she is in sympathy with what he knows. He feels that he and she know one another. They marry. And then the fun begins. - D. H. Lawrence

Perseverance Quotes

When you're experimenting, you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, that you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. And here is the reward for perseverance: The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. - Fred Astaire

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams

Quotes about thinking

Thoughts can be used one of two ways, like a Band-Aid or like a rubber band. Choose to stretch. - Rhonda LaShae

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

Love

Love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. - Stephen R. Covey

Everyone at some point will suffer a loss ~ the loss of loved ones, good health, a job. It's your desert experience - a time of feeling barren of options, even hope. The important thing is not to allow yourself to be stranded in the desert. - Patrick Del Zoppo, psychologist

Life

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's "right". - Ken Keyes

Life is a do-it-for-others. Do-it-yourself project. - Denis Waitley

Self-esteem Quotes

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it. - Denis Waitley

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve. - Jack Canfield

Character Quotes

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. - Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness Quotes

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. - Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiving is not forgetting. It's letting go of the hurt.- Kathy

Friendship

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If your friend has failed you, that's okay - start now to cultivate a circle of even better friends. - Author Unknown

Leadership

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. - Jim Rohn

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems. - S. L. A. Marshall

Habit

Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit. - The Law of Habit.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of. - Denis Waitley

Freedom

Freedom is the absence of restrictions. - Wayne Dyer

I believe that we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. - Rosa Parks

Trust Quotes

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. - Barbra Streisand

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. - Blaise Pascal

Hope Quotes

Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Success Quotes

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific simple habits. - Robert J. Ringer

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy. - Zig Ziglar

Happiness

Happiness is a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time. - Dr. John A Schindler

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is you yourself do and determine upon. - Maxwell Maltz

Inspiration Quotes

Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it. - Jim Rohn

It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else. - H. M. Tomlinson

Family Quotes

Where does family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl-no superior alternative has yet been found. - Sir Winston Churchill

Almost all family problems arise from a lack of communication. - Shakti Gawain

Goal Quotes.

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life - Harvey Mackay

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal - Maxwell Maltz

Humorous and Funny Quotes

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night. - Charlie Brown

I am giving you the right answers! You're just asking the wrong questions. - Dennis the Menace

Courage

Bravery is physical; courage is mental and moral. - Major C. A. Bach

The greatest test of courage on earth is to beat defeat without losing heart. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Quotes on Self-discipline

Self-discipline is a learned art, and to master this art requires two basic steps: First, you must consistently analyze the probable, long term consequences of your actions. Second, you must be tenacious in acting in accordance with what you have determined to be in your long-term best interest. - Robert J. Ringer

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others. - Stephen R. Covey

Communication

If you just communicate you can get by. But if you skillfully communicate, you can work miracles. - Jim Rohn

Writing is the gold standard of communication. Learn to do it well and see more gold. - Chris Widener

Belief quotes.

When you already have a belief, there's no room for a new one unless you weaken the old belief first. Typically the new belief is the opposite of the old belief, or at least very different in some way. - Richard Bandler

Beliefs are like commanders of the brain. When we congruently believe something is true, it like delivering a command to our brain as to how to represent what is occurring. - Tony Robbins

Quote about change

When people don't know how to change something, they often start searching for a way to justify failure, rather than thinking about how they could try doing something different to make it work. - Richard Bandler

Only becoming conscious of old and unchosen patterns allows us to change them, and even so, change, no matter how much for the better, still feels cold and lonely at first because it doesn't feel like home. - Gloria Steinem

Failure quotes

You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce. - Wayne Dyer

Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind. - Maxwell Maltz

Attitude quotes.

Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail. Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. Attitude is everything. - Jim Rohn

If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker. - Zig Ziglar

Dream quotes.

Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. - Anais Nin

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. - James Allen

Wealth quotes.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence. - Plato

Positive quotes.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don'’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail. - Og Mandino

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca

Demotivational Quotes.

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