Top Motivational Speakers Quotes

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business: 1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring 3. Do the right thing 4. Be honest and straight forward 5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow 6. Work hard and be yourself 7. Lead by example

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Now, your skill as a speaker can manifest itself in a variety of ways. You might simply have encyclopedic knowledge about many topics. Or you might be intelligent, able to deduce new facts and explanations on the fly. Or you might have sharp eyes and ears, able to notice things that other people miss. Or you might be plugged into valuable sources of information, always on top of the latest news, gossip, and trends. But listeners may not particularly care how you’re able to impress, as long as you’re consistently able to do so. If you’re a reliable source of new information, you’re likely to make a good teammate, especially as the team faces unforeseeable situations in the future. In other words, listeners care less about the tools you share with them; they’re really salivating over your backpack.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.

Start with the end in mind.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

The modern church by and large is focused on self. We see a proliferation of self-help, self-improvement, and generally self-centered books lining the shelves of Christian book stores, and climbing to the top of best-seller lists. Many Pastors have become little more than “life coaches” and motivational speakers. We see men of God who at one time thundered out calls to repentance and holy living, now proclaiming that their people have a “champion” inside them. We see shepherds who should be feeding the sheep, now having to entertain the goats. There has been without a doubt, a shift from the Church at Philadelphia to the Church at Laodicea.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

The future depends on what you do today.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

Success always demands a greater effort.

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.” 

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.” 

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualize & the actions you take.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

You become what you think about most of the time

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Love them for who they are, and they become who you love.

One moves towards mastery while the other remains a slave, because long-term gratification makes you money while short-time gratification cost you money.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.

No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you´ll work harder for a while; that means you'll work longer for a while. But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct portion to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

There are no limits to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment