Motivation

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

 Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

- Henry Ford

 What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Goethe

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

- Japanese Proverb

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

- Isaac B. Singer

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

- Hugh Downs

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

- Roy Goodman

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

- E. Joseph Cossman

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.- Mark Twain

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

- Stephen R. Covey

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

 There are two primary choices in life: 

i. - to accept conditions as they exist, or 

ii. - accept the responsibility for changing them.

- Dr. Denis Waitley

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.

- Conrad Hilton

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

 Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.

- Unknown

There are only two rules for being successful. 

One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and 

two, do it.

- Mario Cuomo

Life is “trying things to see if they work”

Ray Bradbury

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

- D. March

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

- Goethe

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

Booker T. Washington

 There is no education like adversity.

- Disraeli

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche