motivation quotes

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Never regret what you don’t write.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Hope is a waking dream.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Aim for the highest.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I teach children to be winners.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.