Motivation from the presidents!

Want more motivation?  I hope you said yes!  Here’s where you get it: motivation is intrinsic within you, meaning it’s already inside you.  So the real question is, how can you draw it out?

 

Enter, inspiration!  Inspiration is what pokes at and activates the motivation that you already have within you.  You can animate that dormant motivation with a shot of inspiration to move yourself into action.

 

The great news is, inspiration can be found everywhere, if you’re on the lookout for it.  I surround myself with inspiration by spending time with amazing people, creating and spending time in beautiful surroundings, reading great books and articles, listening to motivational music, and posting my favorite inspirational quotes on my various gadgets.  Take a look around you, the people you hang with, the shows you watch, the activities you partake in.  If it’s dull and monotonous, shake things up with some inspiration and change.

 

In continued celebration of President’s Day, enjoy some of my favorite quotes from the past presidents and their fabulous wives.  Take what inspires you and run with it!

 

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President

 

“Do what you feel is your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.  You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd First Lady of the US.

 

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams, 6th US President

 

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the US.

 

“Pessimism never won any battle.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President

 

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President

 

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”

Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President