Quotes About Motivation

2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

And why urge people to make an effort in this or that direction if everything, including the effort or its absence, is determined?

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

18. Schlegal was disappointed that the people he tortured always talked. What do you think were the motivations behind someone who talked and someone who didn't? If you were in a situation where someone was trying to get information from you, what would be the final straw to make you talk?

It's important to keep in mind that you have control over your year, If you don't like the direction your life is going—then you have the power to change it. If you're not happy where you're at, figure out where you want to be and make it happen.

Nobody wants to die! So why do people let themselves go? Why kill yourself off? Stop and think, get fit and strong! Even a good shag will burn the calories off and pump your heart! There is no excuse - you know it!

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Doing thousands of little things, day after day, inching along as consistently as you can, in the right direction as best you can tell, is management—and motivating or inspiring everyone to work together for long-term purpose is leadership.

The price of tuition for Self University is desire. Your degree is a better life.

a seed and a glove, symbol of his action and his work. (une graine et un gant, symbole de son action et son travail.)"

The cover letter is seen by our actions. (La lettre de motivation se voit par nos actions)"

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?

My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.