Quotes About Motivation

Because the motivation you start any action with determines how beneficial or harmful the result of that action will be, it is always best to begin anything with as vast a motivation as possible.

Most people who stay do it because they're afraid to leave, and most people who leave do it because they're afraid to stay. If you stop and think about it you'll find that fear is the motivating factor for most decisions people make in their lives

You don't write a book for a market, a publisher, or an agent; you write it because your heart calls you to write it." — @tayari

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you

Never forget the essence of your spark!

It is no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing.

It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing.

It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force.

Marco and Polo take a reading class with Jax and a few others, and they seem to enjoy it well enough. None of the digients was raised on bedtime stories, so text doesn't fascinate them the way it does human children, but their general curiosity—along with the praise of their owners—motivates them to explore the uses that text can be put to.

we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do—which is where strategy comes into play.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

We tend to worry more about the "what" of behavior than the "why".

Behavior is a manifestation of what is going on inside. What a person says or does mirrors the heart. "For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).

All behavior is linked to attitudes of the heart. Therefore, discipline must address attitudes of the heart.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.

I've had a huge career of killing off characters. Low attention span. Done that, that works, done. I can't get out of bed if I've got to do the same thing over and over again.

I can't put this down. I'm reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.