Motivational Quotes: Find Some Inspiration
No one can deny the power of a good quote. They motivate and inspire us to be our best.
Business
- Unity is strength when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
- Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to
- The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.
- The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
- Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
- Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
- Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents.
- Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
- Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
Creativity
- You can’t use up creativity the more you use the more you have
- You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are.
- There is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.
- There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
- The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones – John Maynard Keynes
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. – Paulo Coelho
- Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
- Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working
- If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napolean Hill
- Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
- A ship is safe in a harbor. But that’s not what ships are for.
Entrepreneurship
- Tough times never last, but tough people do.
- The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
- Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
- Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
- If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.
- I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody
- I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Do not be concerned with the fruits of your action, just give attention to the action itself.
- Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
- A passionate belief in your business and objectives makes the difference between success and failure.
Innovation
- Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
- Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.
- Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way
- In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
- If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow
- Great companies are built on great products.
- For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
- Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
- Any product that needs a manual to work is broken
Leadership
- The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been
- The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things
- Management is about arranging and telling, leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality
- Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
- Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions
- Leadership is no longer about your position. It’s now about your passion for excellence and making a difference. You can lead without a title.
- It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory, when nice things happen. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- If Your Actions Inspire Others
- I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
- Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is about growing others.
- A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. – Douglas McArthur
- a great leader
Motivational
- You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer – Eckhart Tolle
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations
- You can do anything you want to do. You just can’t do everything you want to do.
- You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream
- When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and I could say, I used everything that you gave me
- We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
- We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
- We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us
- Until you cross the bridge of your insecurities, you can’t begin to explore you possibilities
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
- The real meditation is how you live your life – Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
- The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
- The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.
- The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
- The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
- Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
- Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better
- Positive people also have negative thoughts, they just don’t let those thoughts control them.
- People living deeply have no fear of death – Anais Nin
- One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
- Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
- Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
- Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
- It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
- It is never too late to be what you might have been
- In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.
- In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
- Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
- I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
- Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
- Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
- Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
- Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
- Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.
- Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
- Don’t say If I could I would Say If I can I will
- Do what you fear most and you control fear.
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Change your thoughts and you change your world – Norman Vincent Peale
- Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
- A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great year – Mandy Hale
Productivity
- You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
- We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
- There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
- Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
- Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Stoicism
- Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you have chosen it.
- Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
- The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. – Marcus Aurelius
- Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
- Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Don’t stumble over something behind you.
- A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man without trials.
