Quotes About Motivation

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Idea people need to be around other idea people. They spur each other to change the world.

So he said it now, a true sentence for a false reason.

Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon?

The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn?t need all that space. But she told them to be patient, it would be theirs when she died, which wouldn?t be long now, and she said this kindly, to sharpen the bite of it, and to remind them how much they were motivated by money

The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn't need all that space. But she told them to be patient, it would be theirs when she died, which wouldn?t be long now, and she said this kindly, to sharpen the bite of it, and to remind them how much they were motivated by money

Convince is for thought; persuade is for action.

Eduquer, c'est allumer un feu

I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done. And anyone who has worked in adult education knows that he must appeal for self-help. There are no monitors to keep adults at the task. There are no examinations and grades, none of the machinery of external discipline. The person who learns something out of school is self-disciplined. He works for merit in his own eyes, not credit from the registrar. (1940 ed. page 104)

To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

down, rousing Priestly Morrison from the depths of his seat, where he had sunk so low that only the top of his hat was visible. He

I hope that for my kids, too, success will be its own reward. That they'll do their best because they want to win for themselves and for their team, without even calculating my reaction, much less having it be the driving force. I don't think they'll care that I'm not always ...snapping pictures of everything they do, to be pasted up in the commemorative album of their lives.

I should be writing ...

Give no one in all the world the power to deflect you from your goal, your aim in life, which is to express your hidden talents to the world, to serve humanity, and to reveal more and more of God's wisdom, truth, and beauty to all people in the world.

When your desire to give up the bad habit is greater than your need to continue it, you will be amazed to discover that complete freedom is but a step away.

The teacher does not teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.

Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, gotta do more, gotta be more!

Men commit injuries either through fear or through hate.