Quotes about Motivation

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.