Quotes About Motivation

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Thought is the seed of action.

You cannot burn out until you catch on fire

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

A leader of the business knows what to do. A leader of people knows how to get it done.

We will continue to focus on hiring and retaining versatile and talented employees, and continue to weight their compensation to stock options rather than cash. We know our success will be largely affected by our ability to attract and retain a motivated employee base, each of whom must think like, and therefore must actually be, an owner."21

As an upper-caste reformer, Gandhi was motivated by a sense of guilt, the desire to make reparation for past sins, whereas as one born in an 'untouchable' home, Ambedkar was animated by the drive to achieve a position of social equality and human dignity for his fellows.

As long as you're taking advice from others, you are not integrated, total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated no-mind state.

Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

Don't just THINK about life, BREATHE LIFE!

Man dwells between passion and compulsion

You never FAIL, you either loose interest in what you pursue or move on to something that ignites Passion in YOU!

Whate?er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion? The most prolific source of true success? Is energy, without despondency.

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures failure. Work hard, or you have only yourself to blame.

In seeking to uncover the causes of an event, ask yourself: who stands to benefit from it?

At [my old school], when teachers stood up to address us in assemblies, it was to urge us to study hard, stay focused, remain resilient, set goals, seek support. If there was a "leader," she was the exception, not the norm. Listening to [the adults here], I wonder if things would be different if we spent thirteen years being told that we were born to lead, and that the only thing that would ever hold us back would be a limited imagination.

Everything a person does is manipulative, isn't it? Every kiss, every handshake, every kind or harsh word. It's what we do, who we are. Some of us are better at it or more obvious or more deceitful than others. But we all do it.

Rafe made people find something in themselves...(he) made me dream, he saw what I could hope to be, and helped me hope it. He did that to everyone he knew - especially the ones he knew the best." - Danny

People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments and experience loves and hates that shape their lives. They have religious beliefs that guide their behavior, and they have idiosyncratic goals and ambitions. They have networks of friends and relatives.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.