Quotes About Motivation

That's the lovely thing about having an animal. You might not want to get up for your own sake, but you will bring yourself to do it for them.

If you have a bucket list, get on it. And if you don't, get on that. Get one. And then, get on it. Nobody lives forever.

I have no idea what to do." Which was my mom's way of saying, "Now you do something." When my mom said she was out of ideas, it meant I had to step up.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault.

It's better to do what you can, fitness-wise, than to do nothing at all.

at a time, to help us get up and out of the house in the morning.

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why. —Thurber

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

Oh. Yeah. That's good. That's

The hard work is the lion's share of the battle. Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

Why do we do work we hate all our lives? Somewhere earlier on the road somebody must have made us feel that we didn't have an option to do otherwise. I'm sure it gets psychologically complex

World is full of people so troubled they don't even understand themselves. You could offer them a thousand dollars to explain their motivations, but they can't tell you what they don't know. And most of those miserable creatures find their

Well, here's a thought on that. Raise your ass up off your cot, take it out into the visiting room, and then your eyes will

I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.

No, it's like you get an idea in your head ... no, it's more like you get and idea in your heart.

Trauma-related manifestations of impaired cortical development or functioning may include communication disorders, understanding causality, motivation, academic problems, conservation of matter, ordering events, classifying, forming hypothesis, problem solving, or moral and ethical thinking.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

You have to go for it. For the rest of us.

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

But every time I had the opportunity, I lacked the will.

The drill sergeants learned that lavishly praising recruits who got it right worked better than abusing those who got it wrong. The women had been raised to please, Tracy Borum discovered,

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence." ? Geraldine Brooks, March

Why was she in such a rush to tell him that?