Quotes On Motivation

Business in many ways is about having a dream and then moving towards it.

Here are a number of quotes on motivation that I think are very poignant in regards to moving towards and succeeding at your business dreams.

Carl Jung - Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Harriet Tubman – Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Mark Twain - Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Benjamin Disraeli - The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Bessie Stanley (adapted)

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Havelock Ellis - It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Lloyd Jones - Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.

Samuel Smiles - We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Author Unknown

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To place our ideas, our dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love . . . live.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited freedom