Quotes About Motivation

Therefore, when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it. That person will be highly motivated to convince you that it is the right thing to do.

But you look happier than you have in ages, so who am I to criticise? You go for it, girl.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

bBecause he simply doesn't see his dreams in detail, the kind of details that drive a person to pack their shit, to move.

You envy her. How come she doesn't have the weight of ambition? You pity her. How come she has no ambition?

Remember: That voice in your head that says you can't do it is a liar.

tend to side with the Monks of New Skete on the question of the canine desire to please: dogs, they say, care a lot less about pleasing humans than they care about pleasing themselves; if acting in a way that pleases you means something good will happen to them—they'll get a biscuit, a reward, a pat on the back—they're likely to be motivated to carry out the task, but their agenda is not necessarily driven by the pure and selfless wish to make you happy.

From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they want.

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

So the purpose of the axiom "having is evidence of wanting" is not at all to blame anyone or to shame them for their experience

every unpleasant feeling we have has an unconscious motivation.

Never underestimate yourself

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

Happiness takes an effort of will,

work could become a place where people were uplifted.

But anyways I stopped to put gas in it, I haven't started it yet myself

he wasn't a bad human. He was much more on the good side of the bad/good human graph. He was bad and good, like most people. A good person who does bad things or a bad person who does good things—as long as people are involved, people will do bad or good things to them. Especially when there's money

Somehow, we must give him hope and a vision for improving his character," she continued. "He must see the value in it and believe it's a real possibility for him to change and be successful.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Talk comes from ideology but action comes from outlook.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Don't be afraid to make demands on yourself and push yourself beyond the comfortable limits of what you think you can accomplish; you'll never exhaust your reservoir of potential for accomplishment and achievement. The only limits we possess are the ones we impose upon ourselves.