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Quotes About Motivation

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?
~ Dee Hock
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
We tend to live up to our expectations.
~ Earl Nightingale
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
~ Brian Tracy
Willing is not enough, we must do.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
~ Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
~ David Brooks
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
~ Pindar
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
~ Victor Hugo
Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?
~ Charles R. Swindoll
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
There can be no forced inspiration.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
A dream with a deadline is a goal.
~ Jay Samit
With your goal you make the one.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action.
~ Catherine DeVrye
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves and every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand.
~ Swami Vivekananda
but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly.
~ Swami Vivekananda
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~ Swami Vivekananda
Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.
~ Swami Vivekananda
By all means make a start — even if it's for the wrong reason.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached
~ Swami Vivekananda
have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.
~ Swami Vivekananda