1. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.-Confucius
2. It always seems impossible until it’s done.-Nelson Mandela
3. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.-Thomas A. Edison
4. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.-St. Jerome
5. If you’re going through hell, keep going.-Winston Churchill
6. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.-George S. Patton
7. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.-Helen Keller
8. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.-Norman Vincent Peale
9. Quality is not an act, it is a habit.-Aristotle
10. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.-Charles R. Swindoll
11. Either you run the day or the day runs you.-Jim Rohn
12. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.-Samuel Beckett
13. If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.-H. G. Wells
14. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.-Arthur Ashe
15. If you can dream it, you can do it.-Walt Disney
16. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.-Elon Musk
17. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.-Ralph Marston
18. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.-Theodore Roosevelt
19. Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.-Alfred A. Montapert
20. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.-Lao Tzu
21. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.-Franklin D. Roosevelt
23. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.-Pope John XXIII
24. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.-Eleanor Roosevelt
25. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.-Mark Twain
26. Well done is better than well said.-Benjamin Franklin
27. They can conquer who believe they can.-Virgil
28. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.-Walter Elliot
29. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.-Zig Ziglar
30. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.-Sam Levenson
31. Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.-Leo Buscaglia
32. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.-Rabindranath Tagore
33. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.-Babe Ruth
34. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.-Aldous Huxley
35. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.-Maya Angelou
36. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-Dalai Lama
37. Never complain and never explain.-Benjamin Disraeli
38. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.-Tony Robbins
39. Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.-W. Clement Stone
40. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.-Og Mandino
41. The most effective way to do it, is to do it.-Amelia Earhart
42. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.-Epictetus
43. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.-John F. Kennedy
44. Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.-Stephen Hawking
45. I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.-Florence Nightingale
46. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.-William Blake
47. Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.-Bo Jackson
48. Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.-Don Miguel Ruiz
49. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.-Ayn Rand
50. Leap, and the net will appear.-John Burroughs
51. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.-William Butler Yeats
52. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.-Les Brown
53. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.-Wayne Dyer
54. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.-Robert H. Schuller
55. I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.-Ken Venturi
56. I am not afraid… I was born to do this.-Joan of Arc
57. 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.-George Herbert
58. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.-Ted Turner
59. In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.-Nikos Kazantzakis
60. Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.-Bradley Whitford
61. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.-Woodrow Wilson
62. I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.-Muhammad Ali
63. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.-Unknown
64. Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.-Thomas Jefferson
65. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.-Simone de Beauvoir
66. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.-Harriet Beecher Stowe
67. You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.-George Lucas
68. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.-Henry Ford
69. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.-Carol Burnett
70. Don’t think, just do.-Horace
71. We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
72. March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.-Khalil Gibran
73. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.-William James
74. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.-Thomas Paine
75. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
76. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.-Julie Andrews
77. The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.-Muhammad Iqbal
78. A goal is a dream with a deadline.-Napoleon Hill
79. I can, therefore I am.-Simone Weil
80. The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.-Philip Emeagwali
81. To begin, begin.-William Wordsworth
82. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.-Kyle Chandler
83. One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.-Michael Korda
84. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.-Oprah Winfrey
85. You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
86. I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.-Dan Millman
87. Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.-Pauline Kael
88. Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.-Baruch Spinoza
89. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.-Allen Ginsberg
90. The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.-Bobby Knight
91. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.-Jack London
92. Wherever you are – be all there.-Jim Elliot
93. Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.-Victor Kiam
94. Hitch your wagon to a star.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.-Norman Cousins
96. I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.-Dean Koontz
97. Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.-George Whitefield
98. If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.-Dale Carnegie
99. Either I will find a way, or I will make one.-Philip Sidney
100. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.-Elbert Hubbard
101. The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.-Henry Drummond
102. Always desire to learn something useful.-Sophocles
103. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.-Christopher Morley
104. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.-Flip Wilson
105. Every exit is an entry somewhere else.-Tom Stoppard
106. It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.-Malala Yousafzai
107. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.-Peter Marshall
108. You will never win if you never begin.-Helen Rowland
109. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.-Mark Caine
110. Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.-Carl von Clausewitz
111. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.-Denis Waitley
112. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.-Stevie Wonder
113. I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.-Brian Tracy
114. If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.-Emile Zola
115. Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.-John Donne
116. Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.-H. L. Hunt
117. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.-Gordon B. Hinckley
118. I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.-Mia Hamm
119. The more things you do, the more you can do.-Lucille Ball
120. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.-John Dewey
121. Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.-Albert Schweitzer
122. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’-Martin Luther King, Jr.
123. Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.-Benjamin Jowett
124. Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.-Diane Sawyer
125. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.-Orison Swett Marden
126. Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.-Saint Teresa of Avila
127. There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.-Richard Rorty
128. He conquers who endures.-Persius
129. Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.-Swami Sivananda
130. Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.-Eileen Caddy
131. How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?-J. D. Salinger
132. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.-Jessica Savitch
133. Deserve your dream.-Octavio Paz
134. If you’ve got a talent, protect it.-Jim Carrey
135. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.- Norman Ralph Augustine
137. Step by step and the thing is done.-Charles Atlas
138. To be a good loser is to learn how to win.-Carl Sandburg
139. Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.-Christopher Reeve
140. Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.-Sasha Cohen
141. There is always room at the top.-Daniel Webster
142. Don’t fight the problem, decide it.-George C. Marshall
143. From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.-Tecumseh
144. One finds limits by pushing them.-Herbert A. Simon
145. When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.-Natalie Gulbis
146. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.-Katharine Hepburn
147. After a storm comes a calm.-Matthew Henry
148. Never give in and never give up.-Hubert H. Humphrey
149. Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.-Jimmy Dean
150. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.-John W. Gardner
151. I come to win.-Leo Durocher
152. You create your opportunities by asking for them.-Shakti Gawain
153. You have to make it happen.-Denis Diderot
154. I am not a has-been. I am a will be.-Lauren Bacall
155. The wise does at once what the fool does at last.-Baltasar Gracian
156. God always strives together with those who strive.-Aeschylus
157. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.-Henry David Thoreau
158. I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.-Judy Collins
159. The more we do, the more we can do.-William Hazlitt
160. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.-Albert Camus
161. There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!-Edgar Cayce
162. Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
163. When one must, one can.-Charlotte Whitton
164. Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?-Eliza Dushku
165. One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.-Thomas Fuller
166. The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.-Sylvia Browne
167. I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.-Rose Kennedy
168. Either move or be moved.-Ezra Pound
169. The dog that trots about finds a bone.-Golda Meir
170. Many are called but few get up.-Oliver Herford
171. I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.-Beverly Sills
172. I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.-Donna Brazile
173. You never know what motivates you.-Cicely Tyson
174. In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.-Rupert Murdoch
175. Do whatever you do intensely.-Robert Henri
176. Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.-Phillips Brooks
177. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.-Robert Louis Stevenson
178. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.-Jim Rohn
179. The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it’s time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.-James Rollins
180. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.-Confucius
181. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.-George S. Patton
182. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.-Og Mandino
183. If you think you can do it, you can.-John Burroughs
184. It’s always too early to quit.-Norman Vincent Peale
185. There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.-Nelson Mandela
186. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.-Walt Disney
187. Never, never, never give up.-Winston Churchill
188. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.-Benjamin Franklin
189. If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.-Jim Rohn
190. Only the educated are free.-Epictetus
191. There’s a way to do it better – find it.-Thomas A. Edison
192. I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.-Robert H. Schuller
193. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.-Theodore Roosevelt
194. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.-Thomas Jefferson
195. Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.-Wayne Dyer
196. We aim above the mark to hit the mark.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
197. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.-Unknown
198. A will finds a way.-Orison Swett Marden
199. Who seeks shall find.-Sophocles
200. Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.-William James
201. Know or listen to those who know.-Baltasar Gracian
202. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.-Confucius
203. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.-Og Mandino
204. A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.-John Burroughs
205. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.-George S. Patton
206. Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.-Jim Rohn
207. I’ve heard a lot of motivational speakers throughout the years.-Jason Kelce
208. People say ‘dream big,’ that’s kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.-Jim Nantz
209. We need to accept that the commandments of God aren’t just a long list of good ideas. They aren’t ‘life hacks’ from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
210. Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.-Jerry West
211. Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.-Taika Waititi
212. There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.-John M. Grunsfeld
213. I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it.-Edward Norton
214. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look.-Louise Mensch
215. The people that are feeding you the information on things that I like – love life, believe in yourself, be motivational, give your time to things and meditate – they’re all older people who are well into their 50s and have had careers, and for me, at this point, I’m the young ambassador for this whole lifestyle of making your mentality a reality.-Mod Sun
216. The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television.-Bettany Hughes
217. Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.-Woody Hayes
218. Nobody is guaranteed tomorrow, but why not have goals that are cool and motivational?-Morten Andersen
219. I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.-Peter Steele
220. I’m not one for those motivational speeches. I’ve always been more of an example guy.-Carey Price
221. Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.-Nina Tassler
222. I have given motivational speeches at IIT and other well-known establishments. I want to appeal to the people, and therefore, I talk from the heart.-Sangram Singh
223. Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.-Giorgio Chiellini
224. I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.-Emanuel Steward
225. I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.-Marianne Vos
226. I’m completely honest with everyone I deal with. I genuinely care about people. I want to see people succeed and be the best that they can be. So, I wanted to write a motivational book about life, love and the pursuit of happiness.-Bruce Buffer
227. Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.-A’Lelia Bundles
228. People always need to hear good motivational speeches.-Rudy Ruettiger
229. You cannot compare Pep to any Brazilian coach. If you put all Brazilian coaches together, you would get Pep. One has motivational skills, another is tactically strong. But Pep has it all.-Douglas Costa
230. I told myself that I wanted to be a motivational speaker, I wanted to write a book, graduate college, have my own family, and have my own career.-Lizzie Velasquez
231. I started doing motivational tours. I’ve seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don’t introspect as much as we should.-Anupam Kher
232. Church is definitely still present in my life. Every Sunday I’m tuned in and then throughout the week I read scriptures, I read motivational messages.-Robert Covington
233. I’m a wrestler with nine toes. I’m a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, ‘You never quit. You keep coming back.’-Rulon Gardner
234. One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker – an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That’s what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.-Herman Cain
235. Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.-Daniel H. Pink
236. I’m on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.-Shreyas Iyer
237. I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.-Dominique Dawes
238. Stoking fears of a potential shutdown is a strong motivational tool to get members on board with legislation that they don’t want to support. Both parties are guilty of this.-Mark Meadows
239. People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that’s just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.-Lenny Kravitz
240. My first book was called, ‘Mountain, Get Out of My Way,’ where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people’s lives and trying to be motivational.-Montel Williams
241. I’m able to do motivational speaking all over the world and do so many positive things with my life because of my journey and the battles I’ve fought. Without cancer, I would have never had some of these opportunities, and I wouldn’t be the man I am today.-Daniel Jacobs
242. Speeches? I don’t ever feel like I’m giving a speech. I don’t look at myself as a motivational speaker.-Jim Harbaugh
243. The Duke family, those are my brothers, and it’s something I’ll always take with me. Coach K, he gives me a lot of motivational things and checks in on me and my family. He knows where my heart is.-Brandon Ingram
244. My father is my true inspiration. He’s a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.-Tridha Choudhury
245. I’m a motivational speaker.-Young Jeezy
246. Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.-Leonard Mlodinow
247. Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can’t play this game forever. When I’m finished, maybe I’ll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.-Ed Reed
248. Before I play matches I’m always switching myself on. That’s why I have that walk-on music – Two Steps From Hell – they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on I’m switched on and I’m ready for a brawl!-Neil Robertson
249. Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.-Tina Brown
250. Marvin’s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.-Marvin Sapp
251. My mum was massively important to everything I’ve done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.-Fran Kirby
252. One of the hidden benefits of me being a student manager at Kentucky was me having the responsibility of driving Rick Pitino to his motivational speaking engagements.-Frank Vogel
253. Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and I fancy taking a crack at it.-George Groves
254. I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don’t really consider myself that at all.-Andy Andrews
255. I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.-Ryan Howard
256. Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn’t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.-Drew Barrymore
257. You hope to bring your ‘A Game’ to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.-Edwin van der Sar
258. I want to build a legacy at the WWE, but I definitely want to continue to grow the Bella Empire. I want it to go beyond the ring. I would love to be a motivational speaker.-Nikki Bella
259. I’m thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I’ve always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.-Khloe Kardashian
260. I used to watch a lot of motivational films and videos to remain positive.-S. Sreesanth
261. I don’t know what it’s like to have a typical father figure. He’s not the dad who’s going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he’s such a motivational person.-Tiffany Trump
262. Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn’t need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn’t need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants – his personality is synonymous with success.-Toni Kroos
263. I find that as an athlete, we don’t get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.-Justin Gatlin
264. I’m a motivational speaker, so I’m going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible.-Harris Faulkner
265. I love people who Instagram story themselves running and they’ll tag me or they’ll send me a message and they’ll be like, ‘Wow this is so motivational and so inspirational.’-Andi Dorfman
266. It’s definitely a motivational factor, becoming a three-organization world champion.-Benson Henderson
267. The Gunnar Challenge offers new workouts every day, a meal plan and daily ‘verbal vitamins,’ which are a motivational video or workout tip. The thing that really makes the program work is the forum, where Challengers can communicate with each other and with me.-Gunnar Peterson
268. Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.-Amy Waldman
269. I’ve a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women’s issues around the world – like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.-Martina Navratilova
270. One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called ‘Justin’s list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.’ I wrote it for myself and shortened it to ‘Justin’s Bucket List.’ It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.-Justin Zackham
271. A lot of motivational speakers – players, coaches, or whatever – they kind of speak in these kind of age-old mantras, or cliches or whatnot. Kobe was very much not like that.-Jason Kelce
272. I have never moved away from my mainstay – trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking.-Erin Brockovich
273. My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.-Alia Bhatt
274. I can’t put this down. I’m reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.-Bojan Krkic
275. Sometimes I’ll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he’s a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I’m too cynical.-Laila Rouass
276. Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.-Zig Ziglar
277. I make goals that are motivational, that are specific, that are realistic.-Morten Andersen
278. Motivational speaking became my career. Who would ever have thought it?-Rudy Ruettiger
279. Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that’s always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that’s what you are.-Keke Palmer
280. Coy Wire played in the NFL for 9 years and is now a motivational speaker and has a book out called ‘Change Your Mind.’ He is an amazing person with such positive energy! When Kroy and I first met and started dating, there weren’t a whole lot of people that supported us, but Coy always did.-Kim Zolciak-Biermann
281. I was a motivational speaker and I’ve been in front of crowds a lot and I’m very comfortable with that.-Bruce Buffer
282. The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic to highfalutin. And they paid me well once the magazine was unionized. Getting paid is motivational.-Robert Christgau
283. As long as I’m not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I’m glad I’m not an MC. I’m a motivational speaker. I’m not that rapper dude.-Young Jeezy
284. I’m going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I’ve learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.-J. R. Martinez
285. I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.-Jordan Burroughs
286. After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows.-Eddie the Eagle
287. I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled ‘how to be a motivational speaker.’-Lizzie Velasquez
288. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.-John D. Rockefeller