Blog Marco - Motivational Quotes

The Boundary Between Reality and Imagination

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:28:17 -0800

Whatever you imagine to be real, is real.

— Fanciful Mayor from South Park Imaginationland: Episode III (Season 11 Episode 3)

What the Mind Can Conceive It Can Achieve

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:26:22 -0800

It makes me think that... well maybe we all have the power to make things a reality.

— Eric Cartman from South Park Imaginationland: Episode III (Season 11 Episode 3)

Your Opponent is Yourself

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:37:25 -0700

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.

— Grace Lichtenstein

Enjoy The Ride

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:47:48 -0700

Its not about what happened in the past, though what you think might happen in the future. It's about the ride, for christ sake. There is no point going all this crap, if you are not gonna enjoy the ride... And you know what, when you least expect it, something great might come along. Something better than you even planned for.

— Irving Feffer in Along Came Polly (Movie)

Learning

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:05:08 -0800

I never learn a thing while I’m talking... nothing I say today will teach me anything.

If I’m going to learn a little today – I have to do a lot of listening.

— Larry King

Making Your Dreams Come True

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:58:29 -0800

If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's exciting. If you plan it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's REAL.

— Anthony Robbins

Success is About Perseverance

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:47:36 -0800

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

— William Feather

Failure and Regret

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:14:16 -0800

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

— Cliff (Sam Neill from The Dish)

Will to Win a War

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:15:18 -0800

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

— General Douglas MacArthur

Basic Inspiration

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:53:59 -0700

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

— William Feather

Focus, Focus, Focus!

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:46:15 -0700

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

— William Feather

Courage, Success and Failure

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:11:41 -0700

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

— Winston Churchill

Make your Own Luck

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:23:25 -0700

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

— Seneca, Roman Dramatist

Risks of Action and the Risk of Inaction

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:52:11 -0700

There are risks and costs to a program of action.
But they are far less than the long-range risks
and costs of comfortable inaction.

— John F Kennedy

Confidence In Smaller Things Apply to Bigger Things

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:34:51 -0800

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

— David Storey