Nothing happens unless first a dream. (Carl Sandburg)

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
(Jim Ryun)

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
(Zig Ziglar)

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
(Jane Smiley)

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
(Stephen R. Covey)

Motivation comes from within.
(Anonymous)

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
(Kenneth Hildebrand)

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
(Andrew Carnegie)

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
(Wayne Dyer)

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
(Constantin Brancusi)

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
(Edvard Munch)

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
(Edwin Louis Cole)

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
(Elie Wiesel)

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
(Jack Kerouac)