Thread: Motivational Quotes

Oh god.... where do I start?

"The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"
(Not sure of author)

I'd rather fail than live the regret of not trying
(My own quote, not sure if there is a prior author)

"I find life an exciting business ...and most exciting when it is lived for others"
Helen Keller

"My advice to salesmen is this: Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says "Make me feel important", not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life"
Mary Kay Ash

FASTLANE STUFF

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are 10,000 fiddlers to one composer."
Charles Kettering

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
Albert Szent Gyorgyui

"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated"
Robert Savage


"The future is purchased by the present"
Samuel Johnson

DOING SOMETHING

"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it"
Benjamin Franklin

"If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock"
C. McDonald

I like the one in my sig

I love the yoda quote. My wife is sick of hearing me say it!

I'm a big fan of Henry David Thoreau:

(he can be an acquired taste, so apologies if this is too much)

What got me started (from Walden, and the paraphrase from Dead Poets Society, which I love):

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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On following your dreams:

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

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What to do once you build your dreams:

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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On how to live your life:

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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On defining what is truly right, and wrong:

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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On passion for what you do, who you work with, and how to hire the right people:

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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On feeding the soul:

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

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The importance of doing, instead of writing about it first:

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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On Doing:

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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On the wonder of nature, and living things:

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

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On enjoying the outdoors:

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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On opening your eyes:

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

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On enjoying life:

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

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On Success, and failure:

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

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On working and keeping "busy":

Most are engaged in busy-ness the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

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On keeping things simple:

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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Lastly, what you can get if you follow your dreams:

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

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I'm a sucker for Mark Twain and Albert Einstein, too.

-Russ H.

I've always been big on sports so I look to the best athletes of all time...the ones that are truly the best in world at their proffession...Sports, business or personal, the messages are the same...

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." Michael Jordan

“Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.” - Mahamad Ali

"It ain't about how hard you can hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward" Rocky Balboa

"Adversity causes some men to break and others to break records" Unknown

Coach, I tend to like your signature quote

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" Wayne Gretzky