“Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.”
– Baruch Spinoza
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
– Christopher Morley
“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”
– Richard Rorty
“You never know what motivates you.”
– Cicely Tyson
“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”
– Carl Sandburg
“The dog that trots about finds a bone.”
– Golda Meir
“I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.”
– Dan Millman
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.”
– Thomas Fuller
“If you think you can do it, you can.”
– John Burroughs
“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”
– Baltasar Gracian
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.”
– Orison Swett Marden
“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
– Brian Tracy
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”
– John Donne
“You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.”
– Flip Wilson
“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.”
– Bobby Knight
“I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.”
– Dean Koontz
“If you’ve got a talent, protect it.”
– Jim Carrey
“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.”
– Sylvia Browne
“Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.”
– Jimmy Dean
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”
– Michael Korda
“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.”
– Jessica Savitch
“I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.”
– Donna Brazile
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”
– Muhammad Iqbal
“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
– Ted Turner
“In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”
– Rupert Murdoch
“Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other.”
– Walter Elliot
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower