Quotes About Motivation

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change.

When it is said that it was done to please a woman, there ought perhaps to be enough to explain anything; for what a man will not do to please a woman is yet to be discovered.

the title of this chapter, "Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma.

Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8

Maybe it's a stretch to blame a broader social pathology on hyper-competitive soccer parents. Still, there is not a huge downside to asking every once in a while, Why am I doing this? We will know for certain that my analysis is wrong when we see the following obituary: Bob Smith died yesterday at the age of 74. He finished life in 186th place.

Now that I had a better understanding of why I was so pissed off, I could finally do something about it.

Time is a created thing. To say I DON'T HAVE TIME is like saying I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

Our people say that if you thank a man for what he has done he will have strength to do more.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline . Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and miracles will happen.

If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the other hand, you have nothing to do, getting out of bed and washing yourself before 2:00 P.M. feels like too much work to even contemplate.

Your body reads idleness as a sign that you are starving to death as slowly as possible, no matter how much you eat. Exercise

Bill Fabrocini in The Younger Next Year Exercise Book or Thinner This Year.

You're a grown-up, right? Then don't be a dope. The gadgets, or the weights, do not do the work. You do. Okay, go to a decent gym and hire the nicest, smartest man or woman you can find.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, 'What in the world am I doing with my life?'

The day when I start a race without intending to win it, I won't be able to look at myself in the mirror.

I wanted to look in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. The only person is me, and that's the only thing that drives me. The only person I'm in competition with is myself.

Every so often, I'll look at myself in the mirror and go, 'You're a bad mother,' you know? Like, 'You're a bad dude, man, and you're gonna show the world who you are when the time is right.'

You sort of look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if want to do things if you want to do some cool things and achieve things you've never achieved before.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.

I'd eat, eat, eat, not exercise, go to sleep, eat and eat. I looked up in the mirror and said I had to make a change if I was going to continue to live.