Motivational Quotes part 3

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
--Mahatma Gandhi

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you want to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
--Siddhartha Gautama

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
--William Lloyd George

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
--Kahlil Gibran

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
--A. P. Gouthey

There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.
--Tish Grier

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
--Lewis Grizzard

We will either find a way, or make one.
--Hannibal

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
--Vaclav Havel

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the stepswe must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
--William Hazlitt

Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
--Robert Heinlein

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
--Heophrastus

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
----Don Herold

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
----Hermann Hesse

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
----Napolean Hill

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
----Hindu Proverb

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
----Hitopadesa

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
----John Andrew Holmes

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
----Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
----Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
----Oliver Wendell Holmes

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
----Horace

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
----Lanston Hughes

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
----Victor Hugo

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
----Washington Irving

Motivational Quotes part 2

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
--Leonardo da Vinci

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
--Salvador Dali

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
--Anita DeFrantz

We're all pilgrims on the same journeybut some pilgrims have better road maps.
--Nelson Demille

Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
--John Dewey

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
--The Dhammapada

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
--Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli

The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.
--Lewis Duncombe

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
--Amelia Earhart

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
--Marian Wright Edelman

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
--Maria Edgeworth

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
--Thomas Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
--Thomas Edison

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
--Thomas Edison

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
--Thomas Edison

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
--Albert Einstein

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
--George Eliot

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
--George Eliot

It's never too late to be who you might have been.
--George Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
--T.S. Eliot

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a festival only to the wise.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
--Friedrich Engels

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
--Epictetus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
--Epicurus

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
--Susan Ertz

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
--Euripides

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
--Euripides

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
--Euripides

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
--Doug Firebaugh

For every minute you remain angry, you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
--Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
--Henry Ford

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
--E. M. Forster

Goals are discovered, not made.
--Richard J. Foster

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
--Anatole France

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
--Viktor Frankl

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should not want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
--Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
--Benjamin Franklin

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
--Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes fell great oaks.
--Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
--Benjamin Franklin

Life is full of obstacle illusions.
--Grant Frazier

Thought is action in rehearsal.
--Sigmund Freud

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
--Robert Frost

The only way around is through.
--Robert Frost

Good is not good where better is expected.
--Thomas Fuller

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
--Thomas Fuller

Motivational Quotes part 1

The most important thing about having goals is having one.
--Geoffrey F. Abert


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
--Joseph Addison


Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
--Akhenaton


Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
--Louisa May Alcott


The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
--James Allen


Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
--James Allen


All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
--James Allen


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
--Woody Allen


In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
--Henri Frederic Amiel


A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
--Maya Angelou


Turn right and you will never be left.
--Anonymous


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
--Aristotle


Hope is a waking dream.
--Aristotle


The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
--Aristotle


Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
--Aristotle


Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
--Aristotle


A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
--Marcus Aurelius


That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
--Marcus Aurelius


A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
--Marcus Aurelius


We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
--Jane Austen


Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
--Richard Bach


Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
--Richard Bach


Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
--Richard Bach


There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding, and that which is lost by not trying.
--Francis Bacon


We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
--David Bailey


The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
--Newton D. Baker


Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ill ease with yourself.
--Balzac


Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
--Charlie Batch


What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
--Alexander Graham Bell


Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
--Josh Billings


There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
--Josh Billings


Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
--Josh Billings


Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
--Josh Billings


You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
--William Boetcker


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
--David Brinkley


It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
--Charlotte Bronte


The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
--Heywood Brown


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
--William Jennings Bryan


To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
--Buddha


Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
--Warren Buffett


It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
--Warren Buffett


You can never plan the future by the past.
--Edmund Burke


Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
--George Burns


You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
--Charles Burton


Change is the end result of all true learning.
--Leo Buscaglia


It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
--Leo Buscaglia


Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
--Leo Buscaglia


A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
--Thomas Carlyle


If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
--Lewis Carroll


That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
--Willa Cather


I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
--Cato the Elder


Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
--William Ellery Channing


The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
--Chinese Proverb


The journey is the reward.
--Chinese Proverb


Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
--Chinese Proverb


If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
--Chinese Proverb


It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
--Winston Churchill


Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
--Winston Churchill


We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
--Winston Churchill


The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Winston Churchill


It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. --Winston Churchill

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
--Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill While there's life, there's hope.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
--Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
--Confucius

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
--Confucius

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
--Confucius

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Motivation Definition

Motivation is the thrust by which humans achieve their goals. Motivation is said to be intrinsic or extrinsic. The term is generally used for humans but it can also be wont to describe the causes for animal behavior likewise. This article refers to human motivation. Granting to various theories, motivation may be rooted in a basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure, or it may admit specific needs such as eating and resting, or a desired object, goal, state of being ideal, or it may be ascribed to less-apparent reasons such as altruism, selfishness, morality, or avoiding mortality. Conceptually, motivation should not be blured with either volition or optimism. Motivation is related to, but distinct from, emotion.