Motivational Quotes

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Jane Smiley

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Stephen R. Covey

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.

Dave Gardner

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill


Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher



Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L.Mencken




Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. 



Mark A. Overby

The human heart, at whatever age,
opens to the heart that opens in return.

 
Maria Edgeworth

True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, few have seen it.
 
La Rochefoucauld

Motivation comes from within.
 
Author Unknown

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

 
Wilson Mizner

Love is like a Rhino, short-sighted, but always willing to find a way.
 
Unknown

Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

 
Henry David Thoreau

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
 
Robert Collier

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
 
Ella Fitzgerald

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

 
Albert Schweitzer

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

 
Wayne Dyer


People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
 
Norman Vincent Peale

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

 
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

 
John Wooden

 

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

 
Andrew Carnegie


People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
 
Anne Sullivan

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

 
Mark Twain

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

 
John R. Amos

Thre is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
 
Christopher Morley

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

 
Lowell Thomas

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

 
Dale Carnegie

Success is never wondering what if.
 
Karrie Huffman

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
 
Eddie Cantor

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

 
Robert Schuller


Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
 
William Feather

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
 
Henry David Thoreau


Nothing happens until I make it happen.
 
Scott Wilson

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
 
Abraham Lincoln

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

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

 
Zig Ziglar

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

 
Kenneth Hildebrand