Motivation

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

Well done is better than well said.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

He who moves not forward goes backward.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Nothing will work unless you do.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The early riser grabs two fortunes.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Every beginning is hard.