Quotes About Motivation

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.