motivational self improvement quotes

"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill

"Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose." - Grenville Kleiser

"To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." - Sugar Ray Robinson

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown." - Ross Perot

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

"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like." - Brian Tracy

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Anthony Robbins

"One half of life is luck, the other half is discipline and that's the important half. For without "Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do and you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work." - Bernard Shaw

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - E. Joseph Cossman


"I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act." - Maxwell Maltz

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh