Motivational Sentence Starters
Send a sentence below based on a real-life quote. Adjust pronouns if necessary.
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear.” “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” “What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?” “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” “You never regret being kind.“ "Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?” “Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.” “Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” “To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.” “Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time…serenity, that nothing is.” “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." "Don’t tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." "Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off." "A leader is a dealer in hope." "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." "If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing." "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” “Leadership is an action, not a position." "Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way." "Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are." "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” “If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.“ "Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.“ "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.“ “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." "Do it or not. There is no try." "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” The best revenge is massive success.“ "The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
