Motivational Poems

Poetic Motivation at its Finest

Motivational poems are another weapon to add to your arsenal of self motivation techniques. Better yet, poems often touch emotions and places within us that truly inspire, motivate, encourage, and nourish our souls. The poems here have been collected with great care. Enjoy!

Self Motivation

The Dreaded Task

I found the task that I had dreaded so

Was not so difficult when once begun;

It was the dread itself that was the foe,

And dread once conquered means a victory won.

Margaret E. Bruner

Poem 2:

Start Where You Stand

Start where you stand and never mind the past;

The past won't help you in beginning new;

If you have left it all behind at last

Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through;

This is another chapter in the book;

This is another race that you have planned;

Don't give the vanished days a backward look;

Start where you stand.

The world won't care about your old defeats

If you can start anew and win success;

The future is your time, and time is fleet

And there is much of work and stain and stress;

Forget the buried woes and dead despairs;

Here is a brand-new trail right at hand;

The future is for him who does and dares;

Start where you stand.

Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid;

Today's the thing, tomorrow soon will be;

Get in the fight and face it unafraid,

And leave the past to ancient history;

What has been, has been; yesterday is dead

And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead;

Start will you stand.

Berton Braley