What's Your Why?

Quotes about Desire

Andrew Carnegie:
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.

Napoleon Hill:
There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it.

Foster C. McClellan: (are we related?) :-)
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

James Allen:
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Terry McMillan:
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy - if not less of it - doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

Quotes about Determination

Dale Carnegie:
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Henry Ward Beecher:
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Claude M. Bristol:
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

Martina Navratilova:
Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Vincent Lombardi:
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Peter Marshall:
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.