Quotes About Motivation

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.