Quotes About Motivation

So much to do; so little done.

I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things, as revenge. To show that I could.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I exhort you to be of good cheer.

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.