Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya AngelouThe reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles DickensThose who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert CamusEven when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund HillaryYou can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
George LucasIdeas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon HillThis ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
Jackie RobinsonTreat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.
Richard BransonLearned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSelf-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
John C. MaxwellThe way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham LincolnI can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
Richard M. NixonThe probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham LincolnIt doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian TracyEnthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry FordWe can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil GibranIf you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
Christopher HitchensIdeas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
Ray BradburyI think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.
Lady GagaI do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
LeBron JamesI know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David ThoreauSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William ShakespeareYou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Dr. SeussMen weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady GagaSo many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel JohnsonBodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren BuffettBefore you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.
David GogginsBeing acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
Kendrick Lamar‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
Wayne DyerProsperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark TwainBeing the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
Steve JobsI believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
Joel OsteenNo sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.
Franz KafkaWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor RooseveltI’m chasing perfection.
Kobe BryantGoodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David ThoreauI have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston ChurchillVanity is great motivation, to be fair.
Matthew McConaugheyI firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamHe who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan ThomasIt is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
Jim CarreyWhat is once well done is done forever.
Henry David ThoreauCardi B put a lot of work in.
Nipsey HussleThe colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie RobinsonIf my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.
Woody AllenSometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham BellIt is always your next move.
Napoleon HillHow many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Leonardo da VinciI know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
Dolly PartonStarting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.
Richard BransonFight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader GinsburgYou must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.
Robert GreeneNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. WashingtonA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil GibranWhen all is said and done, more is said than done.
Lou HoltzI’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood