Motivation Quotes

Take risks,

push yourself,

and leave it all in the ring.

Between stimulus and response there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

We are just trying to make tools for people.

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight

the hardest battle which anyone can imagine

until you reach your destination.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska,

or other new territories,

is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there.

The whole nation is interested that the best

use shall be made of these territories.

We want them for the homes of free white people.

Part of the secret of a success in life

is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I found what I was looking for at Langley.

This was what a research mathematician did.

I went to work every day for 33 years happy.

Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Build a better mousetrap

and the world will beat a path to your door.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

The most important thing to do

if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires,

but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Focus on the process,

not the outcome.

Excellence comes from repetition.

Every existing thing is born without reason,

prolongs itself out of weakness,

and dies by chance.

Don’t compromise your principles for popularity.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

It’s just amazing what a little enthusiasm can do.

Nature is the best designer.

The youth need to be enabled to

become job generators from job seekers.

That our government should have been maintained in its original

form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at.

It had many props to support it through that period,

which now are decayed and crumbled away.

Through that period,

it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now,

it is understood to be a successful one.