Motivational

Every man dies, not every man really lives.

William Wallace

I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.

Kirk

Never give up! Never surrender!

Taggart

Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.

Mr. Keating

Hang in there.

Sully

Because it's there.

George Leigh Mallory

This too shall pass.

Hebrew saying

Americans never quit.

Douglas MacArthur

Don't dream it, be it.

Frankie

Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

Mr. Keating

No points for second place.

Slider

First of all, be what you are.

Georges Bernanos

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Misattributed to Theodore Roosevelt

Never despise meager beginnings.

Marty

Nothing will work unless you do.

Maya Angelou

Give me Liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

Well, we knocked the bastard off!

Edmund Hillary

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see a chance to make a new start.

Dale

No power in the ‘verse can stop me.

Kaylee

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Every day above ground is a good day.

Bernstein

It matters if you just don't give up.

Stephen Hawking

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

Dara Torres

There are no victims in this classroom.

Louanne Johnson

You’ve got to take up some space, girl.

Ann Brashares

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

General George S. Patton, Jr.

Courage, Merry, courage for our friends.

Eowyn

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.

English proverb

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Voltaire

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Misattributed to Sun Tzu

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Misattributed to Winston Churchill

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Misattributed to Vince Lombardi

If a man does his best, what else is there?

General George S. Patton, Jr.

It’s all about the journey, not the outcome.

Carl Lewis

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

Problem is just a bleak word for a challenge.

Richard

The time is always right to do what is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

I never needed external forces to motivate me.

Kobe Bryant

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

Not anxious to die sir, just anxious to matter.

Rafe

Wish for what you want, work for what you need.

Ann Brashares

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Misattributed to Mark Twain

A failure is simply the non-presence of success.

Drew Baylor

I only set the stage. You pull your own strings.

John Milton

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work.

Andre Agassi

Do every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Jane Austen

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Misattributed to Sun Tzu

Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word!

Margaret Thatcher

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Huxley

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Fight. Fight to the last man. Fight for your lives.

Gandalf

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

Publilius Syrus

We're either getting better or we're getting worse.

David Goggins

I want to live deep and suck the marrow out of life!

Henry David Thoreau

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

Thomas Jefferson

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

Brom

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Publilius Syrus

We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty.

Mal

"Impossible" is a word that humans use far too often.

Seven of Nine

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Bruce Jenner

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Bryant McGill

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

I will be as broad as the earth. I will not be limited.

Ray Stannard Baker

There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell