20 Quotes to Boost Your Motivation Moving into Fall
While we’re in the final stretch of summer, don’t let these last few weeks of sunshine and weekend getaways get in your way of going out with a bang. The end of the summer is the perfect time to get ahead and prepare yourself for a successful fall.
Of course, when the beach is calling your name, it is not easy to revamp your motivation and pivot your focus back to work. However, if you want to be successful, you not only have to force yourself back on track but rather, get yourself excited as the next season comes. To do so, why not take a note from someone else’s book? Lucky for you, there are a number of influential and successful people to turn to.
From Oprah Winfrey to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, to kick yourself into gear in a big way, take a look at these inspirational quotes from 20 entrepreneurial geniuses worldwide.
- “ You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
- “You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give you the confidence to follow your heart.”
— Steve Jobs - “You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.”
— Elon Musk - “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn to walk by doing and by falling over.”
— Richard Branson - “ To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Don’t compare yourself to anyone else in the world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” — Bill Gates
- “You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.”
— Elon Musk - “It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” — Sara Blakely
- “I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.” — Warren Buffett
- “What is the one-sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!” — Larry Page
- “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “Each day that you’re moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you’re winning.” — Michael Dell
- “Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that.” — Steven Spielberg
- “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn to walk by doing and by falling over.”
— Richard Branson - “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It is the hard days — the times that challenge you to your very core — that will determine who you are.” — Sheryl Sandberg
- “In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.” — Jeff Bezos
- “Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal. How can you be the best in the world at it? It doesn’t matter if you are a filing clerk, an athlete, an accountant or a bartender. All that matters is that you do whatever you can to be the best.” — Mark Cuban
- “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” — J.K. Rowling
- “Don’t compare yourself to anyone else in the world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” — Bill Gates
Originally published at https://www.calendar.com on August 20, 2019.