Quotes About Motivation

The "C" students run the world.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.

As an entrepreneur, I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well, persevere comes from the Latin roots purse, as in "money," and sever, as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Practice being excited.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

To spur a willing horse.

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

Motivation triggers luck.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex.

Do what you love, the money will follow.

I love the challenge.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.