Quotes About Motivation

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

I certainly had no natural ability as a cyclist!

I was never one to think about why I need to go running or go to the gym - it just came naturally to me.

The desire for fitness comes naturally to me.

Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

Once you look at your problems as workout situations, they take on a whole new aspect.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

I figured that the way to get an undertaking like this on the move was to throw some cold beer at it...

There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible motive you have found the right one. Theres this whole culture of no one would leave us or quarrel with us if they weren't a sellout. It is actually a very sick mentality and very widespread.

this is what I have been telling writing classes for years. You must feel not that you want to but that you have to.

No one ever hates without a cause...." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

That is the past. It has already occurred. Its only existence now is as a source of wisdom and motivation. Learn from your pain, your guilt toward your past actions. Let it guide your choices in the future.

Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on—to be motivated by—temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

Every guy can basically be boiled down to what he wants and what he's afraid of.

Give in to your passions and they will lead you to the most preposterous conclusions—passions make a fool of reason.

You have to reward them when they do what you want. I tried punishing them when they misbehaved, but the hammer seemed to crush their spirit.

You tell soldiers what they need to hear to go to war. Bitches need a mission, not a goal.

Why?' - Nasuada 'You know why' - Murtagh

Should I pander to your.....incompetence so you'll feel better? I don't think so.

He welcomed those limitations, for if he were perfect, what would be left for him to accomplish?

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks of himself as a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong.

No one thinks of himself as a villain and few make decisions they think are wrong.