Quotes about Motivation

Habits, such as your self-confidence, enthusiasm, initiative, and persistence. When you change these habits, you make profound changes that will have a major influence on everything you do and how successful you will be.

When you approach every job enthusiastically in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you distinguish yourself from the vast majority of people.

Enthusiasm bears the same relationship to a human being that steam does to the locomotive-it is the vital moving force that impels action. The greatest leaders of men are those who know how to inspire enthusiasm in their followers. Enthusiasm is the most important factor entering into salesmanship. It is, by far, the most vital factor that enters into public speaking.

A burning desire to be, and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.

We must magnetize our minds with intense desire for riches, that we must become "money conscious until the desire for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.

People are influenced in their actions, not by reason so much as by feelings. The creative faculty of the mind is set

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do. Enthusiasm is the mainspring of the mind which urges one to put knowledge into action.

Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also. Kill off this pair before they completely hog-tie you to the treadmill of failure.

Therefore I will devote 10 minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of self-confidence .

A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. Remember that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.

The man who cannot be stimulated to great heights of achievement by love, is hopeless-he is dead, though he may seem to live.

Millions of children have had their imagination dwarfed and retarded by parents who removed as much as possible of the urge of necessity. By "making it easy" for your child you may be depriving the world of a genius. Bear in mind the fact that most of the progress that man has made came as the result of bitter, biting NECESSITY!