Quotes About Motivation

And you can reach them, because you know what it's like to have a difficult childhood. It's made you caring, empathetic and willing to get off your ass instead of just sitting back and enjoying your money.

I, for one, am grateful that you were able to overcome what you've been through. You didn't let it break you—no sir—and that acts as a beacon for others. That's why football is important. It's football that put you up in front of everyone, so they could see your example.

Continua a sognare, Agnes Browne! Per il bene di tutti, continua a sognare!

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.

there's no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.

If stated reasons don't sit well with your conscience or stand the test of logic, look for deeper motivations.

If you treat every day as a battle against yourself, then you can succeed every day and be the victor.

Some general advice about writing: WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Keep that hate alive in your heart, lad. It'll warm you when nothing else will.

So I did what you do when something scares the hell out of you creatively. You do it. You do it in spite of.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.