Get into Action: 77 Thoughts on Motivation
You have a fire inside you, a frictional energy, read these thoughts, think about them and let them propel you into action.
| 1. “I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however – I think it applies to other painters I know – is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it.” - Mark Rothko |  |
| 2. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” - Henry Ford |  |
| 3. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T.S. Eliot |  |
| 4. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert Einstein |  |
| 5. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” - Goethe |  |
| 6. “The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost |  |
| 7. “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” - Voltaire |  |
| 8. “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” - Emerson |  |
| 9. “When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” - Nelson Mandela |  |
| 10. “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” - Walt Disney | 
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| 11. "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." - Steve Jobs |  |
| 12. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein |  |
| 13. "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock. " -Orson Wells |
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| 14. "Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." - Nietzsche |  |
| 15. “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.” - Leonardo da Vinci |  |
| 16. “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” - Mark Twain |  |
| 17. “Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” - Maya Angelou |  |
| 18. “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” - George S. Patton |  |
| 19. “Action expresses priorities.” - Mahatma Gandhi |  |
| 20. “Live the life you've dreamed” - Henry David Thoreau |  |
| 21. “It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - William Somerset Maugham |  |
| 22. "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' " - Muhammad Ali |  |
| 23. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” - Pablo Picasso |  |
| 24. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” - Goethe | |
| 25. “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” - Tesla |  |
| 26. “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” - Machiavelli |  |
| 27. “Eureka! I've got it.” - Archimedes |  |
| 28. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” - G. K. Chesterton |  |
| 29. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.” - Pearl S. Buck |  |
| 30. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” - Richard branson |  |
| 31. "There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose the ventures before us" - William Shakespeare |
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| 32. “Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish somep'n” - Thomas Edison |  |
| 33. “There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.” - Vauvenargues |  |
| 34. “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture” - William James |  |
| 35. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - André Gide |  |
| 36. “Age considers; youth ventures.” - Rabindranath Tagore |  |
| 37. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.” - Billy Durant |  |
| 38. “The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.” - Robyn Davidson |  |
| 39. “It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” - Seneca |  |
| 40. “Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.” - Phillip Adams |  |
| 41. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” - Demosthenes |  |
| 42. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill |  |
| 43. “In Ourselves are Triumphs and Defeats.” -Longfellow |  |
| 44. “It matters not the number of years in your life. It is the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln |  |
| 45. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain |  |
| 46. “As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.” - Chanakya |  |
| 47. “The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.” - Mike Ditka |  |
| 48. “Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.” - Lou Holtz |  |
| 49. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” - Michael Jordan |  |
| 50. “One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about.” - Tiger Woods |  |
| 51. “Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.” - François de La Rochefoucauld |  |
| 52. “I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.” -Howard Stern |  |
| 53. “It's funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could never say that my shit is whack because they know my shit is tight!” - Eminem |  |
| 54. “Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.” - Charlie Chaplin |  |
| 55. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess” - Newton |  |
| 56. “Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.” - David Hume |  |
| 57. “Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.” - Bill Cosby |  |
| 58. “Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain” - Aristotle |  |
| 59. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” - Einstein | |
| 60. “Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.” - Blaise Pascal |  |
| 61. “When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn. ” - John Wesley |  |
| 62. “One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.” - E. M. Forster |  |
| 63. “Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company” - Bill Gates |  |
| 64. “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” -Larry Ellison |  |
| 65. “A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.” - Sigmund Freud |  |
| 66. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.” - Clint Eastwood |  |
| 67. “Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.” - Sun Tzu |  |
| 68. “Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men.” - Miyamoto Musashi |  |
| 69. “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” - Michel de Montaigne |  |
| 70. “All that counts in life is intention.” - Andrea Bocelli |  |
| 71. “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” - Cicero |  |
| 72. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.” - Feynman |  |
| 73. “We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau |  |
| 74. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” - Emerson | |
| 75. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Edison | |
| 76. "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo |  |
| 77. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” - Buddha |  |
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Thanks for compiling these quotes. I loved it!
Some of my favorites:
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life”. ~ Sandra Carey
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses”. ~ George Washington Carver
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ~ Plato
WOW,
NICE ,77 THOUGHTHS ON THE NATURE OF MOTIVATION.
thanks for motivate me.
Very well put together. I see that you took some real time and effort to pu this post together. Well done.
Thanks for compiling these quotes. I loved it!
very good information
Great motivational quotes. Keep 'em coming.
Love it. Great post.
These are all powerful words by powerful people.I enjoyed it very much!
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Awesome Post! I really liked it
Fabulous motivational quotes I have ever seen in my life.
I still read my motivation calendar each day.....have read many of them....the new ones for me were inspirational.
But I loved no 13....
These are very inspirational. I have forwarded them to my staff. Also we have created one for the lead industry. Lowering your lead budget is like telling your staff to stop making money and go home for the day.
~ Lead Publisher circa 2012
the quote which has really striked my mind is a man cannot discover the new oceans unless he has the courage to leave the sight of the shore
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dandy post, i like this...
Without motivation, you can't touch the sky, I will keep this blog and read it at the beginning of my day, so I can stay motivated.
Thanks for posting the quotes from the most powerful people who are/were also normal human beings like us.But their contribution towards the society cannot be measured......They are the real gems
I liked 15th
15. “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.” - Leonardo da Vinci
Really great motivational quotes. As a doctor & a teacher, i find the number one reason for most students not achieving their full potential lies in motivation... and a few powerful quotes go a long way! Thanks indeed.
all quotes have very embolden words that encouraged us.
Action expresses priorities in one of the best, but they're all good
i like this, thanks
“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” - Emerson
Great motivational quote. Love it.
Very great and helpful motivation, and some time you sould also thinking about your self what you sould do to find your succes because your succes is in your hand..
I like Walt Disneys comment. Its kind of fun to do the impossible. When that has happened in my life and other that I have been around, it was more than a day, it was something else.