Motivational quotes

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

Written by a man born into slavery, about why Tuskegee made every student do manual labour.

There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

The more you are and the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your joy.

What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Thomas uses the line as the conclusion of a story in which the desire to succeed is compared with the urgent need to breathe.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

The first of the annual addresses she sent to the probationers of the Nightingale School at St Thomas's; the selection was published in 1914, four years after her death.