Drive and Determination: Top Motivational Quotes - Page 8

Boost your motivation with energizing quotes that push you towards your goals. Achieve more with inspiring words. Page 8 provides more motivational quotes.

Image of Jesse Owens
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
- Jesse Owens
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Image of Esmeralda Santiago
How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?
- Esmeralda Santiago
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Image of Marc Bekoff
When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.
- Marc Bekoff
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Image of Sam Shepard
When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.
- Sam Shepard
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Image of Norman Vincent Peale
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Image of Norman Vincent Peale
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Image of Adam Yauch
Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.
- Adam Yauch
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Image of Bill Bradley
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
- Bill Bradley
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of A. A. Milne
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne
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Image of Tom Rath
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
- Tom Rath
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Image of Indra Nooyi
At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person.
- Indra Nooyi
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Image of Vera Nazarian
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
- Vera Nazarian
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Image of Ted Williams
People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.
- Ted Williams
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Image of Ted Williams
If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.
- Ted Williams
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Image of Herschel Walker
I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.
- Herschel Walker
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Image of B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
- B.K.S. Iyengar
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Image of Morrie Schwartz
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.
- Morrie Schwartz
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Image of Pete Rose
If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.
- Pete Rose
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Image of Pete Rose
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
- Pete Rose
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Image of Pete Rose
When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
- Pete Rose
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Image of Mary Lou Retton
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.
- Mary Lou Retton
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Image of Mary Lou Retton
Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.
- Mary Lou Retton
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Image of Mary Lou Retton
There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people.
- Mary Lou Retton
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Image of Kathleen Norris
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
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Image of Ian Thorpe
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in
- Ian Thorpe
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Image of Ian Thorpe
I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me
- Ian Thorpe
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Image of Ian Thorpe
When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.
- Ian Thorpe
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Image of Ian Thorpe
There is water in every lane, so it is OK.
- Ian Thorpe
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Image of Ian Thorpe
I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.
- Ian Thorpe
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Image of Ian Thorpe
People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows
- Ian Thorpe
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Brad Pitt
Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing
- Brad Pitt
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Image of Amos Bronson Alcott
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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Image of Bob Goff
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
- Bob Goff
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Image of Jack Campbell
I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.
- Jack Campbell
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Image of Mortimer Adler
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
- Mortimer Adler
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Image of Cal Ripken, Jr.
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Image of Jonas Salk
Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.
- Jonas Salk
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Image of Sara Blakely
Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
- Sara Blakely
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Image of Bobby Orr
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.
- Bobby Orr
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Image of Nas
Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work
- Nas
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Image of Tim Tebow
I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.
- Tim Tebow
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Image of Ai Weiwei
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
- Ai Weiwei
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Image of Bill Walton
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
- Bill Walton
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Image of Monica Seles
It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.
- Monica Seles
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Image of Richard Branson
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!
- Richard Branson
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Image of M. Scott Peck
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.
- M. Scott Peck
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Image of Brad Paisley
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
- Brad Paisley
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