Motivation Quotes

There are people who put their dreams in a little box. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to hold [your dreams] up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

This one step - choosing a goal and staying to it - changes everything.

Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.

Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others.

"The moment I forget where I came from and lose my hunger is the moment I'm done."

My advice to you is please don’t ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don’t think you’re good enough.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing, only at different times.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do

Ships are safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are made for.

You have to do what others won't, to achieve what others don't.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.

Do not let doubt, fear, panic, hysteria or even extreme faith to get in your way. Believe in yourself!

I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.

If you seek some special life outside of daily activities, that is like brushing aside waves to look for water.

If you think you're the man... you better deliver in a way that is not asked of any other... you better back it up

You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Ninety percent of life is just showing up.