Quotes About Motivation

You are the hope and the promise for change. Without you, not only can't we accomplish what needs to be done, we will lose everything we have gained." As

At Ogilvy & Mather, founder David Mather established the practice of sending each new branch head a nested set of wooden dolls—each doll opens to reveal a smaller replica of the doll. Inside the smallest is a message: "If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs; but if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants."1

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

Master the power of attitude and you'll live a powerful life.

When people who are driven by a vision see something wrong, they might say to their teammates, "I feel bad because we're not building the kind of system we can be proud of. What shall we do so we don't feel this way?" On

In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.

Your most powerful method of helping other people is to help yourself.

Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.

Q. How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one, if the bulb really wants to change.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

I write out of instinct.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

He'd jolt up in bed every morning, sit quietly for a moment, and you could feel those wheels spinning in his mind as he planned his day. Then he'd hit the floor almost on the run.

As soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

What makes life dreary is want of motive.