“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” ~ Stephen Covey
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~ Albert Camus
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” ~ Henri Bergson
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” ~ Elbert Hubberd
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” ~ James Allen
“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” ~ Juvenal
“It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.” ~ Queen of Sweeden
“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.” ~ Heber Grant
“He who stops being better, stops being good.” ~ Oliver Cromwell
“Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” ~ Brian Tracy
“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” ~ Anthony D’Angelo
“If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.” ~ Michael Jordan
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.” ~ Brian Tracy
“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.” ~ Christian Bovee
“It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to.” ~ Walter Linn
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt