Quotes About Motivation

it's a better mindset to help me get through each day.

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Andy, I just gave my students a two-week assignment and they came back and did stuff that, had I given them an entire semester to complete it, I would have given them all A's. What do I do?" Andy thought for a minute and said: "OK. Here's what you do. Go back into class tomorrow, look them in the eyes and say, 'Guys, that was pretty good, but I know you can do better.

If you have a question," my folks would say, "then find the answer." The

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing

walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

When people say they don't have time, it really means they're not sufficiently motivated

All human activity suddenly seemed to me composed of such sport: We each chose the game we thought would yield the most for us and our own. We gambled, gambled selfishly, gambled more than we could afford, the odds staggeringly stacked in somebody else's favor.

I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

If the faith of underachievement holds anything to be true, it's that by not striving to be better than someone else, you're free to better yourself.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

What motivates us more: the fear of man or the fear of God? If we fear man more than we fear God, then we don't see God in truth. We see the Lord as less than a man—and this is proven by whose will we obey. A. W. Tozer said, "An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

I took care not to be ostentatious (I detest snobs), but my style kind of dazzled my staff at the office. They were eager to follow my examples. I stressed the importance of making a good appearance, wearing a nicely pressed suit, well-polished shoes, hair combed, and nails cleaned. "Look sharp and act sharp," I told them. "The first thing you have to sell is yourself. When you do that, it will be easy to sell paper cups.

The fact that she had no bookkeeping experience bothered me not at all. I knew she would master the technical routines quickly. So I told her I couldn't pay much, but if she was willing to work hard anyhow, I could promise her a bright future. We talked the same language. She did work hard—unbelievably hard—and in less than twenty years she was one of the top women executives in the country, secretary and treasurer of McDonald's Corporation. June

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

You will never have more energy or enthusiasm, hair, or brain cells than you have today.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

The spring of Christian power runs all the way down to what we desire. Most of what we do in life, we do out of the desires of our hearts. This is humbling, but true. So the more our hearts love the Lord, the more progress we will make.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Desire creates the power.