Introduction“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -that's why we recommend it daily” – Zig ZiglarBy definition motivation means that which motivates, that which makes ustake action towards our desired goals and which gives purpose and directionto those actions. Now we all know that very often we lose our motivationand we allow procrastination to dominate our life. With out our motivationwe stop taking action and doing the things we really want to do, we stopachieving the things we really want to achieve and we stop believing we arecapable of becoming who ever we want to be.The secret to beating procrastination is that we need to keep motivated.Every day we must do something, anything that gets us motivated, whetherit’s listening to your favourite song, going for that morning run or simplyreading some quotes. Every day we must motivate ourselves because whenwe are motivated we have energy, we have ideas and we have dreams andwe pursue those dreams with our unbounded faith that we will achieve them and more.To help you stay motivated I have compiled some of the best motivatingquotes from famous speakers and historical figures. Read just a few eachday and contemplate the meaning and philosophy behind each quote. Pickyour favourites, the ones that resonate with in you and stir up a desire toget moving and take action. Write them down and place them where youcan see them each day – at home, at work, in your car, in your wallet, inyour purse, in your briefcase, anywhere and everywhere. That way at anytime wherever you are and whatever you are doing you will always haveyour daily dose of motivation.Steven Grabek


Quotes 1 – 6
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words andactions show that he knows where he is going-Napoleon Hill

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself-James Allen

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we missit, but that it is too low and we reach itMichelangeloYour life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose-John Kehoe

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things,but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leavetheir future in someone else's hands, but not you.-Jim Rohn

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join theranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.-Anthony Robbins

Quotes 7 – 12

The secret of getting ahead is getting started-Mark Twain

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why notme? Why not now?-James Allen

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way.Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past-Brian Tracy

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait forsomething outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think howreally precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or withyour family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.-Earl Nightingale

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight thatknows neither victory nor defeat.-Theodore Roosevelt

Quotes 13 – 18

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.-Aristotle

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.-Napoleon Bonaparte

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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.Discover.-Mark Twain

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.-Arthur C. Clarke

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.-Theodore Roosevelt

Fortune favours the brave.-Publius Terence

Quotes 19 - 24

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?-Robert Browning

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -that's why we recommend it daily.-Zig Ziglar

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but akeen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.-Napoleon Hill

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.-Norman Vincent Peale

Men are born to succeed, not fail.-Henry David Thoreau

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of ourbeliefs about who we are.-Anthony Robbins

Quotes 25 – 30

Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience,independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.-Stephen Covey

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination isthe workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy intoaccomplishment and wealth.-Napoleon Hill

There is just one life for each of us: our own.-Euripides

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in yourwork. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming
impossibilities.-Dale Carnegie

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.-Alexander Woollcott

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine whattheir future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every daytoward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.-Brian Tracy

Quotes 31 - 36

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully isprepared to die at any time.-Mark Twain

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yetunderstood.-Deepak Chopra

They can because they think they can.VirgilThere are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream andwork.-Jeune.E. McIntyre.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Feather Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk tobe alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.-Don Miguel Ruiz

Quotes 37 – 42

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's alwaysyour choice.Wayne Dyer You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of ourexistence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access toan infinity of choices.-Deepak Chopra

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you holdto that desire with singleness of purpose.-Abraham Lincoln

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then Iwarn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.-Abraham H. Maslow

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.-Dale Carnegie

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never doesanything.-Theodore Roosevelt

Quotes 43 – 48

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to acceptoneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting gamein the world -- making the most of one's best.-Harry Emerson Fosdick

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought tobe.-Socrates

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.-Charles Schwab

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.-Lee Jampolsky

Quotes 49 - 54

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you somethingelse is the greatest accomplishment.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.-Unknown

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.-Bruce Lee

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion oflife.-Federico Fellini

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.-Og Mandino

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man canachieve.-Napoleon Hill

Quotes 55 – 60

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow whatyou can do today.-Earl of Chesterfield

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spiritto be encumbered with your old nonsense.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you todo.-Pope John XXIII

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to doand you've done it.-Margaret Thatcher

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-Mahatma Gandhi

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes 61 – 66

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you'vemade in the past.-Deepak Chopra

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul,the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.-Napoleon Hill

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bringsuccess to what they do.-Wayne Dyer

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.-Henry Ford

Victory belongs to the most persevering.-Napoleon Bonaparte

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision isthe promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of whatyou shall at last unveil.-James Allen

Quotes 67 – 72

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.-Mike Murdock

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.-Lao-Tzu

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the newlevel of living I now enjoy.-Anthony Robbins

If you don't risk anything, then you risk even more.-Erica Jong

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us intoaction, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.-Zig Ziglar

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.-Buddha

Quotes 73 – 78

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in thepresent moment wisely and earnestly.-Buddha

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.-Albert Einstein

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.-Henry David Thoreau

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.-T. S. Elliot

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.BuddhaIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we donot dare that they are difficult.-Seneca

Quotes 79 – 84

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always dowhat you are afraid to do.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got tohave a better plan for your life.-Jim Rohn

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.-Andre Gide

Our strength grows out of our weakness.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already hadthe confidence you desire to have.-Brian Tracy

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 that you think you cannot do.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes 85 – 90

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does morethan is required of him, he is a free man.-Chinese Proverb

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.-Albert Einstein

The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.-Desiderius Erasmus

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.-Henry Ford

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more importantthan any one thing.-Abraham Lincoln

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.Imagination encircles the world.-Albert Einstein

Quotes 91 – 96

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness thatyou had thought could never be yours.-Dale Carnegie

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter hislife by altering his attitudes of mind.-William James

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts;for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain inignorance.-William Wirt
What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.-Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With ourthoughts, we make the world.BuddhaThe highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what hebecomes by it.-John Ruskin

Quotes 97 – 101

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.-Josh S. Hinds

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.-Basho

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. Itwill spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There areonly plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.-Bruce Lee

There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know…-Roger H. Lincoln

You were born with potential.You were born with goodness and trust.You were born with ideals and dreams.You were born with greatness.You were born with wings.You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.You have wings.Learn to use them and fly.-Rumi