Sometimes you just need a wise voice whispering in your ear. Choose the motivating quotes that makes your heart beat faster and stick it them on your mirror where you can look at them every day and remember why you’re doing this. Why you dream.
When You’re Afraid to Get Started
- “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh, painter
- “In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker, management consultant and author
- “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” – Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, Inc. and Chuck E. Cheese’s
- “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain, writer and entrepreneur
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney, pioneer of American animation
When You Don’t Know Where to Begin
- “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
- “We are currently not planning on conquering the world.” – Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
- “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” – Paul Rand, graphic designer
- “Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.” – James Dyson, founder of the Dyson company
When Obstacles Are in Your Way
- “Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves and they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.” – W. Clement Stone, businessman and philanthropist
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius, teacher and philosopher
- “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.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Civil Rights movement
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
When You’re Not Sure if You’re Good Enough
- “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey, educator, author, and businessman
- “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Teddy Roosevelt, former U.S. president
- “You are to set your own value, communicate that value to the world, and then not settle for less. Sound daunting? That’s just because it takes you out of your comfort zone. You have got to stop being an obstacle on your own path to wealth and security and happiness. You must understand that valuing yourself is well within your control.” – Suze Orman, financial advisor and television host
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi, NFL player and executive
- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen, filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor
