Motivation Quotes - Page 111

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

Success is not forever, and failure is never final.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do