Motivation QuotesMotivation quotes and motivational sayings are made to inspire enthusiasm. When we are motivated, we feel a strong urgency to move forward. For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? James Allen People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself. Teresa M. Amabile You were born to greatness. Having a life mission implies that that world has need of you. In fact, the world has been preparing you to fill this need with one incredible life experience after another. Finding and fulfilling your potential will lead you to your highest experience in this life. Believe it, you have a mission. It is the gateway to your personal greatness. Greg Anderson Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone De Beauvoir Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death. Betty Bender The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret. Sarah Bombell Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Harriet Braiker The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard. Helen Gurley Brown You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.+ Les Brown He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. Julia Child We only do well the things we like doing. Colette All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Calvin Coolidge Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. Stephen R. Covey Make a little, sell a little, take small steps. 3M Corporation Creed With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing. Edward de Bono Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. Susan M. Dodd To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Will Durant The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. Marilyn Ferguson Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes in the world come about. So be that person. Buckminster Fuller The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time. Joe Girard Improvement begins with I. Arnold H. Glasgow We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking. Andrew M. Greeley Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. Germaine Greer Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill To achieve big things you have to have big dreams. Conrad Hilton Gratitude is a form of wisdom. It is patient, loving, hopeful, and rigorously honest. It denies nothing, and it overlooks nothing. It looks reality full in the face and says: This is true, this is me, this is my situation, and I have the opportunity to build from here. This is my starting point, and I will succeed! Phil Humbert Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Henry Huxley So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. Henry James To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. William James You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self. Susan Jeffers Walking is the best possible exercise. Thomas Jefferson Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you. Brian Johnson We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. Sonia Johnson Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games; 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. Søren Kierkegaard A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Reggie Leach Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. Norman Lear Three keys to success: read, read, read. Vladimir Lenin The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done. Allard Lowenstein The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow into their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams. Sidney Madwed Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities. Orison S. Marden All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain’s fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. Robert Maurer As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement. Robert Maurer Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement. Robert Maurer Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you’ll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly – but painlessly! – you’ll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change. Robert Maurer The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it. John C. Maxwell Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. Mary Manin Morrissey The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. Earl Nightingale Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. Norman Vincent Peale Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. W. Arthur Porter What motivates you to change, to take action? Those who wait to take action until they find themselves in a desperate situation face more difficulties than they need to. Catherine Pulsifer Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are. Rachel Naomi Remen Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. They only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. Anthony Robbins Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Anthony Robbins Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Rohn If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. Diana Ross The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it. John Ruskin You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Joe Sabah We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. Robert H. Schuller I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don’t. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don’t be beaten down by naysayers. Don’t let the odds scare you from even trying. Howard Schultz (CEO Starbucks Coffee) The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around. “The Secret” All great things have small beginnings. Peter Senge Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. Dr. Seuss Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose. Robin Sharma When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. Barbara Sher You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. Barbara Sher You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. Barbara Sher There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment Marsha Sinetar When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. John Steinbeck Every change starts in a small step. Ron Stolero Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be. Charles R. Swindoll You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water. Rabindranath Tagore One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior. E. Paul Torrance Dream! Dream! And then go for it! Desmond Tutu All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. David Viscott It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley God gave you 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say Thank You? William Arthur Ward A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy man but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. Dudley White The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. A. N. Whitehead You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want. Marcia Wieder The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. Oprah Winfrey When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens – and when it happens, it lasts. John Wooden There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day. Alexander Woollcott Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals? Zig Ziglar Return from Motivation Quotes, Motivating Quotations and Motivational Sayings to the Quotes Listed by Subject page
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