Quotes About Motivation

Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do… the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger, the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

With the publication of Running & Being in 1978, George Sheehan's voice became the voice of a movement, sounding a clarion call to hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their sedentary ways, take to the streets, and run. Today, there are millions of us lacing up our running shoes, training for 5-Ks, 10-Ks, half-marathons, and marathons—each trudging the same path of fitness and self-discovery that he blazed decades before.

At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

You know, I learned at a very early age that what kind of social system or political system prevails is very important. Not just for your well-being, but for your very survival. Because, you know, I could have been killed by the Nazis. I could have wasted my life under the Communists. So, that's what led me to this idea of an open society. And that is the idea that is motivating me.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound him, to humiliate him by a finer effort or a more difficult victory? Without him we might perhaps give up. Having an enemy stimulates us, gives us strength. In him we hope to defeat the universe and the malevolence of fate.

The inspector knew the mentality of malefactors, criminals and crooks. He knew that you always find some kind of passion at the root of it.

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

Come on, brain. Make words. Make. Words. "Hey