What’s Your Favorite Motivational Quote?
Getting productive – and awesomely so – isn’t easy by any means. Some people use music to get them going; some people use a combination of the aforementioned with a Diet Coke.
A popular way to get clear and then get going is through the inspiration that comes from motivational quotes.
Do you use motivational quotes to get moving? What are some of your favorites?
Mike Vardy is the creator of the personal productivity parody site,
Eventualism, and the editor here at
WorkAwesome. In addition to contributing to other productivity sites (
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“We do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.” -Oswald Chambers
My desktop wallpaper says:
expect the best, be prepared for the worst, f*** what others think & do your own thing
When life seems hard, remember, you are going to die.
Many favourites, but here are a couple of good ones:
“Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you aren’t doing anything very innovative.” ~ Woody Allen
Lot’s more here http://marksquotes.posterous.com
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” – Lee Iacocca
“When i hear somebody sigh -life is hard I’m always tempted to ask compared to what?”
Lazy hands make a man poor,
but diligent hands bring wealth.
-Solomon
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucius
Or the same but with Japanese brevity
“Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
- Japanese Proverb
“Everyone has the same amount of hours in the day as Einstein or Madame Curie”
“You’ll often have to push through something in order to pull through for someone.”
I think that can be attributed to me…but I’m also thinking that I may not be wise enough to have come up with it!
“To be old & wise, first you have to be young & stupid”
Live as if today is your last in this world and see miracles happen!
“Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.”
– Steve Prefontaine
“Fortune favors the bold.”
– Virgil
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
– Steve Prefontaine
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
– Bruce Barton
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
– Bernadette Devlin
“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
– Carl Sagan
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
–Aristotle
I dont know if its a specific “motivational” quote, but i like this one
“Luck’s just the door, you gotta use the window. That’s where your skills come in!”
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
“You don’t have to get it right; you just have to get it going.” – Mike Litman
“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”
- Wayne Gretzky
“Once you learn how to quit, it becomes a habit”
- Vince Lombardi
Don’t wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom – Jim Rohn
Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn
The most important question to ask on the job is not “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job is “What am I becoming? – Jim Rohn
“If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor.” (Neil Simon)
“I do not seek. I find.” Pablo Picasso
“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.” (Georges Bernanos)
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” (Katharine Hepburn)
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ” – Abraham Lincoln
“To be old & wise, first you have to be young & stupid”
Why join the navy when you can be a pirate? — Steve Jobs
my favourite motivational quotes
“Energy and Persistence conquer all things” – Benjamin Franklin.
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. ” – Robert Frost
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power
to choose. In our choice lies our growth and our freedom.
-Viktor Frankl
“Darker nights always result in brighter stars”
- Unknown
“We are the music-makers and we are the dreamers of the dreams.”
- Willy Wonka
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
It may be a quote by Darth Vador, but there is much more to it that motivates you.
“Nobody ever won a war by dieing for their country. They did it by making some other bastard die for their’s.” Gen George Patton
If you can dream it, You can do it !
- Walt Disney