Quotes About Motivation

Looking forward to the next week, when could this happen? List at least three times. What obstacles might prevent you from doing this activity three times a week? How can you address these challenges? Implementation questions: What activity did you choose to focus on three times this week? Did you spend more time on your chosen activity this week than in previous weeks? If so, how much more time did you spend on it? What was the impact of aiming to do this activity three times per week?

Harsh as this sounds, if you're not in the right job—a job that is moving you toward where you want to be in life—then you're wasting almost all the time you're spending at work.

requires changing the narrative. As Daytner explained to me, she doesn't tell herself I don't have time to do X, Y, or Z. She tells herself that she won't do X, Y, or Z because "it's not a priority.

Not only do you have to do what you love, you have to love what you do. That is, the job conditions need to be optimal to coax out your best work.

In my previous book, Grindhopping, I told young entrepreneurs to ask three questions: What do I love so much I'd do it for free? How can I get someone to pay me to do that? If there's no obvious job title in an organization doing what I love (and often there isn't), what's a low-cost way I could start a business doing that, and get the cash register ringing quickly?

madness. Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want.

Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

Oh, and by the way, you did good, kid.

He convinced Gil Eannes, a Portuguese explorer, to try once more

Fear was his most important means of motivating his men; they became more afraid of Magellan than the hazards of the sea.

Strive to achieve a positive frame of mind. Cultivate thinking in a positive way. Every day read inspirational books and articles

With the chance I've been given, I'm gonna be driven as hell

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Nothing in the world...is so powerful as an idea that tells people exactly what they want to hear.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

to write only when you're inspired devalues the craft and defies your need to learn and improve. If you're committed to excellence in writing, you accept responsibility to do everything you can for your own self-improvement.

We live by encouragement and die without it--slowly, sadly, angrily.

I know what to do . . . I just can't do it.

It's hard not to think and hope that your children might achieve great things—and to believe that they can accomplish anything if you only give them a boost along the way. But it's also hard to know when you're helping and supporting, and when you've crossed the line into pushing. And it's so easy to fall into the mindset of "I'm doing it for your own good.

It is not too late. It is not too late.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

La sorpresa es el móvil de cada descubrimiento.

Ma anche a lui che non si è mosso è toccato qualcosa, un destino – quella sua idea che le cose bisogna capirle, aggiustarle, che il mondo è mal fatto e che a tutti interessa cambiarlo.