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by Wenbin Nah | Saturday, August 23, 2008 in |

Quotes about Motivation


"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~ Robert Francis Kennedy

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
~ Zig Ziglar

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."
~ Napoleon Hill (Author, Think and Grow Rich)

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going."
~Napoleon Hill (Author, Think and Grow Rich)

"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)

"You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind."
~ Brian Tracy (Self-help author and international speaker)

"In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible."
~ Stuart Wilde (Author, consciousness researcher)

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."
~ Brian Tracy (Motivational speaker and self-help author)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher, essayist, poet and lecturer)

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
~ Henry Van Dyke

"You may be out, but never give up."
~ Mary Crowley

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of determined derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference."
~ Calvin Coolidge (30th president of the United States)

"Endurance is the crowning quality."
~ James Russell Lowell (Poet, editor, essayist and diplomat)

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
~ Salvador DalĂ­ (Spanish painter)

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
~ Stephen Covey (Personal development author and speaker)

"Strong reasons make strong actions."
~ William Shakespeare

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
~ Sir Winston Churchill

"Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose."
~ John Kehoe

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain (Author)

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
~ Arthur C. Clarke

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
~ Wayne Dyer (Self-development author and speaker)

"The future depends on what we do in the present."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~ Albert Einstein