Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Theme Series: Quotations on Motivation


Need a pep talk occasionally to get on with your life? Here are 14 select quotes to get you motivated:

-Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you
. ~ Thomas Jefferson

-Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~ Og Mandino

-Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. ~ John Donne

-If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~ Dale
Carnegie

-Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose– a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Shelley

-Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius

-I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso

Selected by quoteflections.

-Learning is the beginning of wealth.
Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. ~ Jim Rohn

-People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily. ~ Zig Ziglar

-As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ~ George Bernard Shaw

-Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. ~ Ernest Hemingway

-The secret of discipline is motivation. When a person is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. ~ Sir Alexander Paterson

-It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. ~ George Eliot

-If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. ~ Emile Zola

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