Quotes About Motivation

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying." —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

Do the thing, and you shall have the power." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Compensation

If you've ever been told, "You'll get it if you just want it bad enough," I'm here to let you off the hook: it simply isn't true.

it is just as easy to step back into the habit of succeeding as it is to slip into the habit of failing.

It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.

There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started. 17.

There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started.

make a simple roadmap for each one, consisting of three elements: 1) your dreams for that area, expressed as goals—specific, vivid, and with a timeline; 2) a simple plan to start (and when I say simple think: "find Germans"); and 3) one simple daily discipline that you will commit to doing each and every day from now on.

by adding those little grams of success, one at a time (and by not adding more weight to the failure side), you will eventually and inevitably begin to shift the scales in your favor.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." The

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration

Everything you do, every decision you make, is either building your dream or building someone else's dream. Every single thing you do is either leading you away from the masses—or leading you away with the masses. Every single thing you do is a slight edge decision.

The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. People

The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they're also just as easy not to do.

Life is doing. If you aren't doing, you're dying.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power.

So easy to do. So easy not to do.

We are all either building our own dreams or building somebody else's. To put a sharper point on it, we're either building our own dreams - or building our nightmares.

the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

The answer is as simple as it is sad: somewhere along the way, you lost faith. You became too grown-up to take baby steps, too sure you would never succeed to let yourself fail a few times first. You gave up on the universal truth that simple little disciplines, done again and again over time, would move the biggest mountains. You forgot what you used to know about the slight edge.

Documents usually describe what we need, but not why we need it.

When I walk into environments where the walls are clear, or even covered with pleasant artwork — or worst of all, motivational posters — it makes me sad.