Inspirational thoughts to motivate yourself

• Failure is like driving down a dead end road and turning back to find a better route.

• Winners don't have time to place blame, they're too busy getting ready for the next challenge.

• Success is the greatest motivator.

• It's better to try something great and fail, than to do nothing and succeed at it.

• As long as you know where you are headed, there is no need to justify it to others.

• Everything ever accomplished in history was born of human thought and ingenuity.

• Don't let who you are stunt who you want to be.

• Conceive and believe to achieve.

• Better to consider your route while you are on solid ground than to panic in the quicksand.

• Sometimes how far you go is not as important as the direction you take.

• Your goals must be clear but your guidelines must be flexible.

• Later never comes, there is only now.

• You can never live up to everyone's expectations, but you can live up to your own.

• Many people are talented yet few distinguish themselves. The ability to rise above lies more in effort than in talent.

• Everyone is good at something.

• Intentions don't count, actions do.

• There are many tasks in life that are unavoidable, whether you do them cheerfully or grudgingly is up to you.

• It is more fearful not to have a goal than not to reach a goal.

• What you are is more important than what you have been and what you aim to be is best of all.

• You cannot strike higher than you aim.

• Neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our ability.

• If you don't know where you want to go, no amount of planning will get you there.

• Being able to do only a little is not an excuse for doing nothing at all.

• The ultimate motivator is defeat. When you hit bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.

• The motivation to succeed is much more valuable than knowledge or training. Motivation drives you to seek knowledge, but knowledge does not intrinsically create motivation.

• The future is where you will spend the rest of your life.

• Never risking the chance to make a mistake is the biggest mistake you can make.

• You are more likely to be motivated by the avoidance of adversity than by the attainment of peace.

• The joy of the journey is not so much in reaching the harbor as in anticipating what lies ahead.

• The only thing stopping you is yourself.

• To move your mind, set your body in motion.

• To move your body, first move your mind.

• There is not guarantee that tomorrow will come. Do it today.

• When your perception changes, the cloudy day turns sunny.

• Worry changes nothing but your mind.

• Sages can point the way, but ultimately we must walk the road alone.

• Nothing has control over your destiny but you.

• Appreciate what you have.

• Nothing is certain, so don't bet on it.

• Impossible only mean it will take a bit longer than planned.

• The first step determines the direction of the journey.

• Uninspiring goals produce uninspiring results.

• There is no obstacle so great that it cannot be met head on or avoided.

• Nothing makes life more mundane than habit.

• Experience, whether good or bad, is an asset.

• The rabbit outruns the fox because the fox is running for his dinner and the rabbit is running for his life.

• No matter how bad your situation is, you always have the freedom to discover something good about yourself.

• You have to maximize what you have to get what you want.

• Doing leads to achieving. Being leads to becoming.

• Problems are teachers not obstacles.

• Potential - use it or lose it!

• What goes in strongly resembles what comes out.

• Where you start is not important, where you are going is.

• Adversity is the wrapping paper of opportunity.

• How you feel about your goals is more important than how others feel about them.

• What you do with your problem is more important than what your problem does with you.

• Allow yourself to dream, it just may come true.

• An obstacle is what you see when you stopping focusing on your goal.

• The secret to good aim is having a big target.

• When the tide comes in, it lifts all things with it.