Motivation Quotes

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

~ Harold Holzer

...if people do things for lunk-headed, backward-looking reasons, why wouldn't we also do things for significance-seeking, self-actualizing reasons? If we are predictably irrational - and we clearly are- why couldn't we also be predictably transcendent?

~ Daniel H. Pink

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

~ Harold Holzer

Fair mindedness doesn't require a lot of thought, it requires a lot of bravery.

~ Toni Sorenson

You can't wear your brain out by overusing it.

~ Toni Sorenson

To have a flexible, open, clean mind, you have to do three things: exercise it, accept new ideas, clear out the clutter. Be willing to change your mind when it needs changing.

~ Toni Sorenson

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

~ Harold Holzer

You can't have a great life unless you move two things: your body AND your mind. Keep them both exercised by taking them places they've never before been.

~ Toni Sorenson

I will never be a loser. Never. Because I will never stop trying to be better.

~ Toni Sorenson

In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.

~ Sira Masetti

Weight gains aren't failures – they're learning curves.

~ Rachel Stevenson

The mightiest flame of fire lies in positive mindset.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never settle up for something that is lesser than what you expected.

~ Anamika Mishra

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Imagination can take you to any place of interest.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The human spirit holds remarkable strength, in times of adversity and pain, some stand taller after they've fallen proving that you can't measure a want, a desire or a dream on the logic of physical reality.

~ Nikki Rowe

Start anywhere, with whatever is in front of you. The key is to begin - and to trust that as long as you’re putting one foot in front of the other, eventually you'll get to where you need to, or at the very least, much farther than you had initially imagined.

~ Geetanjali Mukherjee

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

~ Philip Zaleski

Shine thy light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Begin to study. You can master any field of choice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never forget the life experiences, Aloneness and companionship.Cold and warmth.Hard times and good times.Failure and success.Pain and healing.Planting and harvesting.Poverty and prosperity.Searching and finding.Sorrow and happiness.Tears and joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be sacred soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die—what makes this any different from a half hour?

~ Leo Tolstoy

Motivation is a state of mind, just like discouragement.

~ Stephen Richards

Don’t just GO through life, GROW through it. For Life comes to you only once, never to return! Climb the Ladder of Life, step by step.-RVM

~ Rvm

Life Begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Internet

What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our motivation to live through every tribulations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want something bad enough, then do something about it!

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

in our life many moments which can only be set-forth as best and described as perfect, only these are the moments that you wish were rooted in heart, in mind, in time, and effectively ignore all kind of cruelty and sadness this world has to offer. Unfortunately we can not prevent it from our life, because fortunate or unfortunate finally we’re all going to have to live it. And as perfect as a moment is, don’t be shocked, don't be scared to let it go and confront the world with your true-cent, with your positive impact and move forward in this unstable/unexpected journey of life. As appealing it is to have that one moment where life made sense and beautiful frozen in time, remember that there are many more ‘perfect’ moments fabricated on your way waiting for you…to sweep over the challenges of life to make each moment worth it..

~ Rahul Kushwaha

The mightiest flame of fire lies positive mindset.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul.

~ Oksana Rus

Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame.

~ Nikki Rowe

Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.

~ Shampa Sharma

Everything good starts with caring.

~ Shampa Sharma

When you love your work, it works better.

~ Shampa Sharma

Destiny reveals itself only when there is truth and action.

~ Suzy Kassem

Motivation 1.0 presumed that humans were biological creatures, struggling to obtain our basic needs for food, security and sex.Motivation 2.0 presumed that humans also responded to rewards and punishments. That worked fine for routine tasks but incompatible with how we organize what we do, how we think about what we do, and howwe do what we do. We need an upgrade. Motivation 3.0, the upgrade we now need, presumes that humans also have a drive to learn, to create, and to better the world.

~ Daniel H. Pink

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

~ Philip Zaleski