Quotes About Motivation

My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success. The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My toothbrush and deodorant are my only dumbbells. That's about it.

Don't get angry, get bangry.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Josh Hutcherson

Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas.

The only possible outcome of double thinking is that you invariably end up negating whatever it was motivating you in the first place. Forcing yourself to think twice about something is just admitting that somehow you are instinctively stupid, and that repetition is the only thing that will save you from yourself.

By this time next year, you'll be in places you never even dreamed of. Keep on pushing.

Don't talk yourself out of it. Talk yourself into it.

People with strong frames typically achieve their goals most of the time."

Success requires HIGH energy and HIGH EXCITEMENT

The easiest and fastest route to WIN BIG in life requires getting around winners. Watch what they do and do it. Listen to what they say and say it. Follow the patterns.

The environment you are put in will not prevent a focused person from being successful.

West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner

I knew how to block out my issues in a sprint, but in marathons I ran out of gas. Consistency became a critical problem. On days that I was inspired, I was unstoppable. But other days I would play bad chess. The time had come for me to learn the science of long-term, healthy, self-sustaining peak performance.

There will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest.

A heartfelt, empathetically present, incrementally inspiring mom or dad or coach can liberate an ambitious child to take the world by the horns. As

Finally, we learn to be completely self-sufficient and create our own earthquakes, so our mental process feeds itself explosive inspirations without the need for outside stimulus.

What Chinese parents understand," Chua wrote, "is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.

I wish I could tell you. I wish I could tell you why I write at all.

out. I was sure not only that everything worth doing had already been done while I was asleep but also that, now that I was awake, there was no longer anything worth doing.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...