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Quotes About Motivation

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal.Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.
~ Venus Williams
We can compare a life without a goal to an equestrian on an obstinate horse: much movement but little headway
~ Sunday Adelaja
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but it begins with you. You have the power to take the first step toward a better future.
~ Dave Shepp
Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.
~ DaShanne Stokes
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
~ Zig Ziglar
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
~ Bill Shankly
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
~ Erma Bombeck
Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.
~ Joel Hildebrand
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
~ Ronnie Shakes
Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
~ Steven Spielberg
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
~ Unknown
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
~ Robert Orben
Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.
~ Dean Martin
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
~ Lewis Grizzard
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
~ Billy Crystal
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
~ Slappy White
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
~ Samuel Johnson
God put haters on this earth for two reasons: 1. To motivate others. 2. To give no lives a job.
~ Surgeo Bell
To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
~ George W Bush
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
~ Brian Tracy