Steve Jobs Motivational Quotations

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Never settle for average

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you daven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.