By Daniel Jean-Louis
Motivation is like a spark, it starts the fire that is success and determination. Motivation is important because it encourages us to persevere and to put in more effort. I want to motivate those reading this article to continue trying as they go through the month of November, and as they continue throughout the rest of the school year.
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." — Maya Angelou
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." — Pele
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near." — Margaret Thatcher
"The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress, you need discipline." — Dan Waldschmidt
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."— Stephen King
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road" — Muhammad Ali
"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." — Dale Carnegie
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." — Colin Powell
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” ― Coco Chanel
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“In most things, success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” – Montesquieu
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” — Stephen Hawking