Quotes About Motivation

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.