A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
모두에게 온화하게 대하되(be gentle to all) 너 자신에게는 엄격하라(be stern with yourself).
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
John Donne
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Swami Sivananda
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen
Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku
I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile
I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller
If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey
In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch
It’s always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian
Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
믿음을 가진 한 사람(one person with a belief)은 단지 관심만 가진 99명의 힘과 맞먹는다(be equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests).
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
기회는 노크를 하지 않는다(do not knock). 문을 두들겨부셔야(when you beat down the door) 모습을 보인다(present itself).
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
인내(perseverance)는 장거리 경주(a long race)가 아니다. 하나 뒤에 또 하나 잇닿은 많은 단거리 경주들(many short races one after the other)이다.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
직면한 문제는 정지신호가 아니다(be not stop signs). 가이드라인일뿐이다(be just guidelines).
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
목표를 정하는(set goals) 것은 보이지 않는 것을 보이게 하는 첫번 째 단계(the first step in turning the invisible into the visible)이다.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
총총 걸음으로 돌아다니는 개(the dog that trots about)가 뼈다귀를 찾는다(find a bone).
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammed Iqbal
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
일들은 벌어지는(do not happen) 것이 아니다. 벌어지도록 만들어지는(be made to happen) 것이다.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
훌륭한 패자가 되는(be a good loser) 것은 이기는 방법을 배우는(learn how to win) 것이다.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
한계에 달했더라도(reach the end of your rope) 거기에 매듭을 묶고 매달려라(tie a knot in it and hang on).
Wherever you are – be all there.
Jim Elliot
Who seeks shall find.
Sophocles
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton
You never know what motivates you.
Cicely Tyson
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