Quotes on Motivation

Little by little, one travels far

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.

For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination.

There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.

Do one thing every day that scares you.