Quotes about Motivation

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm