Quotes on Motivation

There is no substitute for hard work.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

The best motivating is self-motivating. 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."

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult