Quotes About Motivation

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, "Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

If there is no wind, row.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

Discontent is want of self-discipline; it is infirmity of will.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.