Motivation Quotes

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.
Jim Rohn

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
Brian Tracy

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Chinese Proverb

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.
Desiderius Erasmus

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry Ford

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.
Josh S. Hinds

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Basho

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It
will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are
only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know…
Roger H. Lincoln

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi