Quotations about Motivation
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you.
~Lisa Alther
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
~Walter Bagehot
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
~Constantin Brancusi
Value work.
~Anna Robertson Brown
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.
~Gelett Burgess
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
~Dale Carnegie
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
~Edwin Louis Cole
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas Edison
There's no substitute for hard work.
~Thomas Edison
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
~Henry Ford
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
~Katherine Graham
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
~Kenneth Hildebrand
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
~Napoleon Hill
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~Conrad Hilton
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
~Samuel Johnson
Mistakes are the portals for discovery.
~James Joyce
What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
~Jack Kerouac
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
~Jack London
Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
~John C. Maxwell
To finish first, you must first finish.
~Rick Mears
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
~Edvard Munch
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.
~Amos Parrish
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
~Tom Robbins
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
~Carl Sandburg
Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
~Henry Van Dyke
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.
~Jack Welch
Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
~Elie Wiesel
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, we did it ourselves.
~Zen Saying