Quotes About Motivation

It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don't care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.

I think that's one of the most important thing for a player to have - to have goals for yourself, that you want to make steps, that you want to improve yourself, that you want to go the highest level.

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

If you want to motivate people, then it's more important to think about what they want, rather than what you want.

My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job."

Chapter 7 takes a psychological truism, "we tend to believe what we think others believe" and turns it around: We tend to think others believe what we believe. This chapter examines a set of cognitive, social, and motivational processes that prompt us to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs, further bolstering our credulity.

There are mysteries in science, and mysteries in art, but the greatest mystery has always been another person's deepest motivation.

Universities began learning the art of turning the insights of their researchers into large chunks of money by hiring more lawyers and making new kinds of deals, becoming experts in protecting intellectual property, installing startup incubators, and building research parks. Seen from this angle, it looks like universities and scientists aren't fighting against the profit motive; they've been infected by it.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

If your goal is to become financially secure, you'll likely attain it…. But if your motive is to make money to spend money on the good life,… you're never gonna make it.

It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You'll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

We spend our waking moments," he said at last, "trying to be successful, because we can't think of anything else to do.

Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it—freedom, not reason—to pursue his plans for the future.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives