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Quotes About Motivation

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Failure builds muscle, determination, and dreams.
~ Michael Jordan
To think of failure is to fail.
~ Arthur Saxon
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
~ Major Taylor
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
~ Og Mandino
If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened
~ Terry Leahy
If you think you can - you can!
~ Ronald Reagan
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.
~ Sally Satel
The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
~ Gerald Seymour
Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?
~ Donalyn Miller
I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.
~ Joyce Meyer
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.
~ John Wooden
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
~ Bill Bryson
Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.
~ Yogi Berra
The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.
~ Unknown
I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
~ George S. Patton Jr.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
~ Richard Branson
The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don't lose faith in yourself.
~ Neymar
Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith, your choices, and your efforts
~ Unknown
All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.
~ Carl Sandburg
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
~ William James