Thread: Motivational Quotes

"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true!!" - Debi Thomas

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. " - John Barrymore

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." - Edgar Cayce

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." - M. C. Escher

"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way." -Baltasar Gracian

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." - Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau


This is my contribution to this thread, sorry if some of those are reposts

Just wanted to revive this thread with a couple of good quotes

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money." - Lord Acton

"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?" - Robert Townsend

"He profits most who serves best." - Arthur F. Sheldon

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary" - Vidal Sassoon

"Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners" - Robert Kiyosaki

"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence" - Lisa M. Amos

"The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place" - Jim Rohn

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer" - Nolan Bushnell

"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent" - Thomas Edison

"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" - Mark Twain

"The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business--but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think?" - Bill Rancic

Above my desk:

"The common denominator of success-the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful-lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do."

-Albert E.N. Gray

My sig on another forum:

"Get big fast. Damn the cost. Be brave. Go over the cliff. The competition doesn't have the balls."
Denis O'Brien
"To buy while blood is running in the streets"
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"The only ones who can shoot are the ones who are prepared to be shot."
Lelouch vi Britannia, 99th Emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire & CEO of the Black Nights. (1999-2018 RIP)

Originally Posted by Jill

This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given this day to use as I WILL.
I can waste it... or use it for good.
But what I do today is important,
Because I am exchanging a day of my life for it!
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever,
Leaving in its place something that I have traded for it.
I want it to be gain, and not loss;
Good and not evil;
Success and not failure;
In order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

I have never heard this one before, but your right, it certainly stirs the soul. Thank you.

Do you know the author? I want to print this out and put it on my wall.

"Success or reward is not the end of the road. Success is the road; it is the journey"

"Are you stepping over dollars to pick up nickles?"

Landlording on Autopilot - Mike Butler



Thanks for the reply Jill. I'm glad you posted who wrote that, I looked it up and about 10 different folks claimed it as their own.

http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html

Great quotes guys!

Here are some that I enjoy:

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind" (Old Bulgarian)

"There would be miracles if youth can know and age can do."

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goals."

"Never allow others to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

"Stone crumbles, wood rots, and people, well, they die. Things as fragile as as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."

"Excellence is not a singular act. You are what you repeatedly do."

and of course:

"Today is yesterday's tomorrow, that's why the present is a gift."

Here is a link to a number of blurbs, not quite motivational quotes, but short statements about famous historical figures who succeeded because they did not give up:

"They Did Not Give Up"

This is by far the best motivational speech I have ever seen...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY]YouTube - Glengarry Glen Ross speech[/ame]



The coffee is or closers!

Oh I love that scene! This one is another one of my favorites!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQnCFdjLJAM&feature=related]YouTube - Wall Street Greed is Good, Wall Street Movie[/ame]

Greed is good!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFNeBRc7W7s&feature=related[/ame]

This should motivate ya!