- Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound
- You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku
- To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Carl Sandburg
- Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
- There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
- Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Swami Sivananda
- After a storm comes a calm.
Matthew Henry
- I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil
- The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt
- When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis
- Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
John Donne
- Don’t fight the problem, decide it.
George C. Marshall
- You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Shakti Gawain
- You have to make it happen.
Denis Diderot
- One finds limits by pushing them.
Herbert A. Simon
- Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
- I come to win.
Leo Durocher
- From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh
- I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Lauren Bacall
- Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
- The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Henry Drummond
- If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola
- True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner
- What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
- There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
Edgar Cayce
- Deserve your dream.
Octavio Paz
- Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.
Christopher Reeve
- You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
- Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine
- How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. Salinger
- To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
- I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm
- The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
- Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Phillips Brooks
- Never give in and never give up.
Hubert H. Humphrey
- 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
- One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
- If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey
- To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
- I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
- Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas
- If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Stevie Wonder
- There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty
- We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden
- God always strives together with those who strive.
Aeschylus
- It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Malala Yousafzai
- I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile