MOTIVATION

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

Chinese Proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Anonymous

Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

Anonymous

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Yogi Berra

The game isn't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Life's too short for chess.

Henry James Byron

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Business has only two basic functions marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Leo Durocher

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford

Early to bed and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Ben Franklin

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Emma Goldman

The impossible is often the untried.

Jim Goodwin

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.

David Grayson

Character is destiny.

Heraclitus

As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Isben

To do nothing is in every man's power.

Samuel Johnson

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao-Tzu

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Leacock

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Bishop W.C. Magee

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

Marchant

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Maritain

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo [Buonarroti]

There are three ingredients in the good life: Learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Darlington Morley

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Robert Motherwell

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Blaise Pascal

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

What matters today is not the difference between those who believe and those who do not believe, but the difference between those who care and those who don't.

Abbe' Pire

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Will Rogers

I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Theodore Roosevelt

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be:

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Henry David Thoreau

Less is more.

Mies van der Rohe

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Bill Vaughan

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington