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Quotes About Motivation

WITHOUT EQUAL. Think about it. These words are even more powerful than the "Will to Win" or "#1"…ponder the feeling one gets from these words. I suggest you, embrace these words forever within your institution. And as you enlarge your circles around the world, make these two words your everyday life breath.
~ Harold G. Moore
Look for and find the really good "horses" in your organization and run them hard. Push them and challenge them with greater levels of responsibility.
~ Harold G. Moore
Overcome boredom by injecting enthusiasm into your work.
~ Harold J. Sala
When you don't have a passion for what you are doing, no one else will get excited either.
~ Harold J. Sala
Sometimes we are not as bored with our work as we are bored with ourselves.
~ Harold J. Sala
It will hurt if you justify your choices based on material rewards.
~ Harold J. Sala
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
~ Harper Lee
You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
~ Harper Lee
İnsanlar bir nedenle birbirine güvenirdi; nedenini unuttum.
~ Harper Lee
Tim Johnson was advancing at a snail's pace, but he was not playing or sniffing at foliage: he seemed dedicated to one course and motivated by an invisible force that was inching him toward us. We could see him shiver like a horse shedding flies; his jaw opened and shut; he was alist, but he was being pulled gradually toward us.
~ Harper Lee
Shut up, Jean Louise. I'm trying to make you see his motive:
~ Harper Lee
To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it, whether you think you have it in you or not. Every day.
~ Harper Lee
Every great dream begins with a dreamer
~ Harriet Tubman
some people say i would rather be pushin a ford than driving a chevy, em too i love a good workout
~ Harriet Tubman
passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.
~ Harrison H. Owen
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
~ Haruki Murakami
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
~ Haruki Murakami
I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.
~ Haruki Murakami
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
~ Haruki Murakami
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.
~ Haruki Murakami
You can have all the desire and ache inside you want, but what you really need is a concrete starting point.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
~ Haruki Murakami
What's more, you're loads better than you think you are." "So why is it I get to thinking that way?" I puzzled. "That's because you're only half-living." she said briskly. "The other half is still untapped somewhere.
~ Haruki Murakami
But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.
~ Haruki Murakami