Top 50 Motivational Quotes and Mma Inspirational Quotes

Here is an idiosyncratic, exotic and energetic list of fifty great motivational quotes that have improved my life. They are presented in no particular order and represent some of the best inspirational, philosophical and personal development writers of all time. Enjoy. And please let me know your favourites too -- WestOcean

1. The best thing you can do for the poor, starving and downtrodden, is to not be one of them - Anon.

2. Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it - W H Murray (not Goethe, as popularly claimed).

3. Errors. like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below - Dryden

4. Money is an idea. There are fast ideas and slow ideas just as there are fast trains and slow trains - Robert Kiyosaki

5. Belief is the cauldron, the furnace of achievement - WestOcean

6. Quit if you want to but no-one will care and you will always remember – Anon.

7. Man is what he believes – Anton Chekov.

8. Imagine the look on their faces when you achieve more than any of them dreamed you could - WestOcean

9. Dream, and your dreams will fall short - St Josemaria Escriva

10. How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? – Tony Robbins

11. Every second is a new beginning - WestOcean

12. We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves - Brian Tracy

13. Live as you want to be remembered. Become that legend.- WestOcean

14. We are all time travellers - through the power of memory, and the power of dreams - WestOcean

15. Leverage is the force multiplier. Leverage is the magic that can move mountains - WestOcean

16. Ideas are viruses - make sure you are contagious! - WestOcean

17. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving may not be for you. - Anon

18. Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do – David Brent, The Office (BBC TV)

19. Is your work done? Are all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly? - David Brent, The Office (BBC TV)

20. If work was so good, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves - David Brent, The Office (BBC TV)

21. Putting myself in the position of the people taking my call was what turned things around – James Caan (multi-millionaire Dragons’ Den entrepreneur)

22. The purpose of art is to set man's soul on fire and never let it go out - Mike Mentzer

23. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.- Tony Robbins

24. He did dream and his dreams came true. He did have visions but they were of a real future, not an imaginary one - Stone on Tesla

25. Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor - Nikola Tesla

26. I shut my eyes in order to see - Paul Gauguin

27. How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? - Anthony Robbins

28. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - Muriel Strode

29. It never fails to amaze me that most people spend more time planning a vacation than their own life – Kristina Crowley

30. Cutting out your daily cappuccino isn't going to make you rich! - Richard Templar

31. Nothing in this world feels better than following through on the commitments you've made to yourself - WestOcean

32. Nobel winner Myron Scholes was asked which he had more of - brains or money. "Brains", he said, "but the gap is closing".

33. The great end of life is not knowledge but action - T.H. Huxley

34. Life is too short to be little – Disraeli

35. The danger is not that we should fall... but that we should remain on the ground - Saint John Chrysostom (c.347-407)

36. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do... - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

37. Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

38. Gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra fly For the day I die, I'mma touch the sky... - Kanye West, Touch The Sky

39. I've asked myself, How much do you commit yourself? It's my life, Don't you forget, Caught in the crowd, It never ends... - Talk Talk

40. A goal is a dream with a deadline - Napoleon Hill

41. The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultured, nurtured and multiplied -Richard Koch

42. Procrastination is the silent killer - Anthony Robbins

43. Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools - Og Mandino

44. There are two great days in a person’s life…The day we are born…and the day we discover why. William Barclay

45. Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is POTENTIAL power. We have to follow through - Anthony Robbins

46. All you need is a snowball and a sufficiently long slope - Warren Buffett

47. I must do the most productive thing possible at any given moment - Tom Hopkins

48. At work, what's the one constraint that, if removed, would make you five, ten, twenty times more productive? - Richard Koch.

49. Don't put off your work until tomorrow - Saint Josemaria Escriva

50. God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into their nest - J.G. Holland