Quotes about motivation
motivational new-year zest
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give William Arthur Ward
motivation depends
Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?
motivational challenges impossible
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
motivational sports determination
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
motivational believe inspire
What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.
motivational leadership basketball
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
motivational perseverance retirement
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
motivational men giving
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve." Wilfred Grenfell
motivational art taken
The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks. Wilferd Peterson
motivational wise philosophy
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
motivational book inspiration
You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.
motivation love-is men
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.
motivational years add
Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.
motivational book men
Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.
motivational success journey
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
motivational dream eye
The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner.
motivational honesty dishonesty
Honesty is something you can't wear out. Waylon Jennings
motivation thinking people
Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time. Stephen Colbert
motivational letting-go silly
Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. Stefan Sagmeister
motivation trying balance
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects. Sonia Sotomayor
motivation school yale
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
motivation inspiration government
The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world. Thomas Heatherwick
motivation negativity stronger
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. Tim Tebow
motivation inspiration play
It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play. Tim Brown
motivational two people
People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice. Tim Burton
motivation people needs
When people are inspired, they don't need motivation. Thomas Leonard
motivation heart rewards
The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain. Thomas Kinkade
motivational success business
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. Thomas J. Watson
motivational leadership business
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
motivation failure inspiration
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
motivation inspiration thinking
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.' Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
motivational believe priorities
I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. Victor Kiam
motivational positive moving-on
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.