Motivational Quotes (1)

In keeping in line with the Pursuit, Capture and then the Care and Feeding of a Positive Mental Attitude; is the repetition of meaningful and positive statements. Motivational quotes, for many, fill that bill. Following is the first in a series of motivational quotes. Take the ones that feel right and repeat them to yourselves regularly and with passion.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge

Success favors the prepared mind
-Louis Pasteur

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
-Theodore Roosevelt

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-Albert Einstein

Most of us are about as happy as we make our minds up to be.
-Abraham Lincoln

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal,
while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.
-Polybius

As you ramble through life, brother, no matter what your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole
-Dr. Murray Banks, quoting a menu

Whether you think you can or
Whether you think you can't.....
You are right.

-Henry Ford

The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.
-Robert Kirby

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Demosthenes

Luck is the residue of design.
-Branch Rickey, general manager
of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Patting yourself on the back
doesn't push you ahead.
-Car Wash Philosophy

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

Pessimism never won any battle.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Discipline is remembering what you want.
-David Campbell

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
-Abraham Lincoln

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence,
we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
-Deepak Chopra

See Motivational Quote Index for more quotes.