Motivation Quotes

Really good people like me are scared of falling off. I’m totally scared of falling off. Just imagine it. Just imagine if I woke up one day and I was wack. What would I do then?

Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing.

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here. And don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.

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

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration … surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term.

The harder I work, the luckier I get. When you have momentum going, play the momentum.