Quotes on Motivation

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.