For some people, their goals aren’t achieved simply because they have something they would love to do, but they just don’t have the courage, the faith in themselves, or perhaps the know-how to take the first step in the direction of achieving their dreams. For others, they get started but run out of enthusiasm and so their dreams are put on hold because they just don’t have the energy to keep going. This is where words of motivation from other people who have achieved great things come in useful.
There are many quotes that now famous people have made and which are cited on posters, calendars and websites. These words of motivation can be instrumental in providing the assurance that it’s not always necessary to be the smartest, richest person in the world in order to achieve a dream, but rather it’s the person who takes an opportunity, or faces his fear of failure, who succeeds.
A man who achieved far greater things than he could have even dreamed possible, Walt Disney, offered the following words of motivation to those who are standing on the threshold of dream frightened to take the first step in the direction of a secret cherished goal: “All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Finding that courage isn’t always easy. Most people have a fear of failure, and if you have a dream of something that’s close to your heart, often it’s easier not to even try and tempt failure and just keep the dream alive of what you could do “one day” if you wanted. Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt had some words of motivation to people who fall into this sector, “you must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Her husband, former president Franklin D Roosevelt, put it in a simpler way by saying “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. In a motivational sense, FDR’s quotation could be interpreted as saying that we must fear fear because fear holds us back from achieving all that we could, and a motivational interpretation of his wife’s would be that we mustn’t not do something just because we think we shouldn’t.
Words of motivation can be used as a boost to your enthusiasm when you’re lagging in pursuit of a dream, or they can be the catalyst that gives you that extra boost of confidence that starts you on the road towards achieving your goals. This is especially true of those who put things off because they have so much to do now, and they say that they’ll follow their dreams later – when their children are grown, when their finances are more settled, when they retire, and suddenly they find they are out of time and are left with the regret of a dream unfilled. As Martin Luther said “How soon ‘not now’ becomes never.” Words of motivation such as those are simple, and yet thought provoking – they strike a chord with both the head and heart as the head recognizes the truth and the heart yearns to accomplish it’s dream – and so the motivation to at least try is created.
When you are feeling that you can’t accomplish your dreams, find quotations from people who have tried to follow their dreams and let their words of motivation help to reassure you that there is no failure in trying, there is only failure in never attempting to capture a dream. As hockey player Wayne Gretzky said “100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” In other words, if you try to follow your dream and you might succeed, but don’t try and you are guaranteed to fail!