Quotes About Motivation

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The real difference between men is energy.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

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

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful.

Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

'Tis the motive exalts the action, 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell, Harricum!