Motivating and Inspiring Quotes

Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by Setema Gali in Inspiring Quotes

I want your help friends! Will you help me compile a best quotes by inputting your quote or quotes in the comments section? It’s for a friend whose time on this earth is coming to a close…

Here’s where I got the idea…

When I joined Facebook a while back I would post quotes each day from my studies in the morning. What I noticed was that people began emailing me and messaging me and thanking me for the inspiration.

How could I take credit? I was simply creating value for other people.

Now it’s almost impossible to look at facebook or twitter without seeing powerful quotes all over the place.There is something powerful and moving about hearing a great quote. While playing football for BYU a great quote could turn the day around or pull me out of a crazy day.One quote that ran through my head was “If you want it bad enough you’ll pay the price and do what it takes NO MATTER WHAT.” Another quote that kept me from quitting was this “I”ll die before I quit.” That became a motto for me.

To this day I love to read quotes that inspire, motivate and move me to take action. Life isn’t easy at times especially if you are taking the path of passion, persistence and purpose.

Before I start each project I remember this quote.

I’m inviting you to share your favorite quote or as many quotes in this section by leaving it in the comments section.

I look forward to being inspired and know that I can come here anytime and find peace, excitement, energy and purpose through the quotes that will be left here.

Thank you and enjoy!

Here are some of my favorites..I have a TON but to get this started here goes…

“It’s not the blowing of the wind that determines your destination, it’s the set of the sails.” Jim Rohn

“Clarity is power.” Tony Robbins

“In the end it will not matter what we have chosen first if we have not chosen to serve Him.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell

” Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” Wooden

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” Jim Rohn

“No success outside the home can compensate for failure in the home.” David O. Mackay

“The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do what is right let the consequence follow.” Hymn Book

“We never see the world the way it is…we see the world the way we are.” Steve D’Annunzio

Go ahead and post your favorite quote or quotes in the comments section. When we get to 1000 quotes I’ll publish all the quotes in a book and all those who have commented will be emailed the PDF of great quotes! Thank you.

P.S. Share this with your friends through the social media channels and help this go viral…thanks.

29 Responses to “Motivating and Inspiring Quotes”

James

17. Jun, 2010

Thanks Setema. It seems like you would have a lot of these already. I look forward to receiving the PDF with all these quotes…

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
~Author : Josephine Preston
Sharon

17. Jun, 2010

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Prayer power is real. By putting it into action, we will be able to stay more constantly in higher awareness than ever before. If we can do that, the world will quickly change. “—James Redfield

Thank you thank you thank you Setema.
A Davies

17. Jun, 2010

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

—Marianne Williamson

[Often said to have been quoted in a speech by Nelson Mandela. The source is Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, Harper Collins, 1992. —Peter McLaughlin]
Marcelino Latorre

17. Jun, 2010

………………………….

Thanks for making a difference in my life.

Here is a quote I live by:

Time is like money you can waste it or you can invest it.
-Marcelino Latorre

………………………….
Curtis G. Marsh

17. Jun, 2010

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER WITHIN! All of us…regardless of the odds! And that EACH AND EVERY DAY…we all have what it takes to make the IMPOSSIBLE…POSSIBLE!

Love Honor & Respect
Nico Pesci

17. Jun, 2010

I’ve always found this quote from Victor Frankl as very inspiring… and something that personally helps me keep my perspective and attitude in check on a daily level.

I figure, if he can come up with that theory, or believe that life is still worth living – even while being in a Nazi concentration camp and losing his family – there are very few things that happen in my life that are worth feeling down or lost about.

“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Victor Frankl

Another that I love from Tony Robbins…

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save them… It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

And finally, from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”

He has dozens of quotes or parts in his books that I’ve underlined and highlighted and put on 3×5 cards, but that one always stuck out.

I hope your friend fights a strong fight and finds joy in the time he/she has.
Carine

17. Jun, 2010

“The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.” – Andre Malraux

“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.” – Bruce Barton

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” Benjamin Disraeli

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin

“I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.” – Mike Ditka,

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person.”- Wayne Dyer

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.” – Samuel Goldwyn

And the most powerful word for your friend LOVE!!!
Lala

18. Jun, 2010

I think this is a wonderful idea! Throughout my Senior year in high school I’d have this little notebook with me and I’d ask everybody what their favorite quote was. It was awesome hear quotes from my peers, teachers, the admin and even people at work. Sad to say that I seemed to have misplaced that book :/ but I think this is great! Here are my couple of quotes:

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” -John Powell

“If you look for the positive things in life you will find them.” -unknown

“A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.” -Chinese Proverb

“I believe in God like I believe in the sunrise. Not because I can see it, but because I can see all that it touches.” – I forgot who said this one. Sorry :/

“God wants to say something to us, but we can’t hear Him–because the kids are screaming, we’re on the phone, plugged into an iPod, distracted by personal problems, have ADHD, or all of the above.” -Brent L. Top

“I am convinced that none of us can appreciate how deeply it wounds the loving heart of the Savior of the world when he finds that his people do not feel confident in his care or secure in his hands.” -Jeffery R. Holland

“A word to the wise is not needed, it’s the stupid people that need it.” -Bill Cosby
Victoria Bitton Nord

18. Jun, 2010

“Your At-It -tude determines your Altitude.”
-Victoria Bitton Nord
Jordan English

18. Jun, 2010

“Don’t let your past be the excuse for your future.” I changed that one from “Don’t let you past dictate your future” – African Proverb

“Instead of making excuses for your life, make expectations.” That is another one I like. I think I came up with it, but I may have just changed some words.
Mac

18. Jun, 2010

It’s hard to pick a favorite, but here are two that I love about living right and motivation.

“…I want it said by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” Abraham Lincoln

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
kul

18. Jun, 2010

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato

“Talent is God given. Be humble.
Fame is man-given. Be grateful.
Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” John Wooden

“Quit wasting time surfing the web during primetime” Pati
Kazue

18. Jun, 2010

“To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing.
To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing.
To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of
nothing.” – Saint John of the Cross

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts.
If one speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows one, like a shadow that never leaves.”
- Dhammapada
Liat Tofa

18. Jun, 2010

Whenever we are inclind to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.
Thomas S. Monson
Lincoln Manutai

19. Jun, 2010

A Quote from Harry S. Truman that I love to help me Begin with the End in Mind. An epitaph that says, “Here lies Jack Williams, He has done his damnedest.”
Sasha

19. Jun, 2010

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” –Patrick Henry, speech at the Virginia Convention, 1775

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund Burke

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Setema Gali

19. Jun, 2010

Hey everyone keep going! thank you so very much. This is wonderful. My friend and many others will benefit from it greatly. Much love and joy!
Curtis G. Marsh

19. Jun, 2010

1. * ESTABLISH A BELIEF *

2. * ACT AS IF THE BELIEF IS TRUE *
…
3. * THE WORLD WILL RESPOND TO YOUR BELIEFS AND ACTION *

Most people FOCUS, but no ACTION…Formula for FAILURE! I guarantee it…

CGM
Joe

19. Jun, 2010

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. — Winston Churhill
Joe

19. Jun, 2010

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing

-Edmund Burke
Soma Ruiz

19. Jun, 2010

“I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work”
-Thomas Alva Edison
Koa Lum

20. Jun, 2010

Setema,

Great project. Give our love and aloha to your friend. Here are some of my favorite quotes, the last one I owe all to you.

Size matters not.
– Yoda

Always in motion is the future.
– Yoda

Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
– Yoda

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”
–Ezra Taft Benson

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert Kiyosaki

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
Robert Kiyosaki

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki

Expect progression, not perfection.
–Setema Gali, MGM mission

Thanks Bro
Dolle

20. Jun, 2010

“Victory is the peaceful strength others feel in your presence.”

~TheDolleHouse
Kenny Reay

21. Jun, 2010

These are thoughts that I had as a result of different experiences in life. In order to remember them I jotted them down and put them in quote format.

“Don’t be mistaken, the competition
is against yourself, and it doesn’t finish
at the end of the match, race, day, week, month
or year… it ends at your eulogy. “

or

“A careful evaluation of an mounting
number of people endeavoring to
successfully increase wealth is their lack of
priority when considering those aspects
most important to the joy that slowly
evades them.”

or

“Most men sit and wonder what
it would be like to be rich,
Rich men work and know
why they don’t want to sit.”

-Kenny Reay
Fina Schwenke

22. Jun, 2010

Hard work will beat talent when talent doesnt work hark. Tim Notke
Chelsea

22. Jun, 2010

“dont tell me the sky is the limit when there is footprints on the moon”

“dont let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”

“the service you render is the rent you pay here on earth”

“action expresses priorities” gandhi
Mani Toketa

22. Jun, 2010

“Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen” – Andrew Bernstein.
Mark Furlong

25. Jun, 2010

Setema,

These are great. Here are a few that I like.

Find purpose, the means will follow. – Gandhi

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass! – Paul J. Meyer

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar

Thank you for your inspiration.
Mark Furlong
Greg Petralia

28. Sep, 2010

“The stature of a man is not always measured in feet and inches, but rather by how far he is willing to stretch to reach new heights” – Greg Petralia

Love your Site, it brings new sight to those who are willing to look inside!

Your Awesome!

Greg Petralia