Quotes About Motivation

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.