Quotes About Motivation

Self-betrayal is the germ that creates the disease of self-deception. And, like childbed fever, self-deception has many different symptoms—from lack of motivation and commitment to stress and communication problems. Organizations die, or are severely crippled, by those symptoms. And that happens because those who carry the germ don't know they're carrying it.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

If you will it, it's not a dream.

If you will it, it is no dream

Write it however you want to, but start writing!

I know that as you gentlemen view such things, such conduct has no excuse for being. One may be the victim of an internal conflict between two illicit moods, yet nevertheless, as the law and the church see it, guilty of sin and crime. But the truth, none-the-less, is that they do exist in the human heart, law or no law, religion or no religion, and in scores of cases they motivate the actions of the victims. And we admit that they motivated the actions of Clyde Griffiths.

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

Sometimes we don't want to move, speak, or act like that. But something deep inside us pushes us to speak and act in that way. Afterward, we feel so ashamed.

This is why, to be happy [...] we need to take some time each day to sit down, look into ourselves, and identify the kind of energy that's motivating us and where it is pushing us.

Many of us think of our daily nourishment only in terms of what we eat. But in fact, there are four kinds of food that we consume every day. They are: edible food (what we put in our mouths to nourish our bodies), sensory food (what we smell, hear, taste, feel, and touch), volition (the motivation and intention that fuels us), and consciousness (this includes our individual consciousness, the collective consciousness, and our environment).

The third nutriment is volition. This is your desire, your hope, your aspiration. It's the energy that keeps you alive. You want to be someone. You want to do something with your life. If you're motivated by compassion and love, your volition will give you the energy and direction to grow and become even more loving and compassionate.

Don't worry if those around you aren't doing their best. Just worry about how to make yourself worthy. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

Let me fight Jon Jones. I need that rematch.

I'm a big fan of Jon Jones.

Jon and I have a lot of drive. But really, the most glaring difference is I'm better looking.

Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.

I don't want people to follow Scarface. I want people to follow Brad Jordan, man.

It was always a dream for me to come to Jordan. Of course I want to be back in Formula One.

I memorized every line in Michael Jordan's 'Come Fly with Me.'

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

I listen to a lot of audio books and business-related books. All of the great businessmen have one thing in common: they write down their goals. They keep a journal. Not only that, but I write down my goals, and I check it off: whether or not I ate right, work out, check it off.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're doing it.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.