Quotes About Motivation

And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it.

you certainly should

To be a leader you must be a reader. Read, lead, succeed. Cynthia Brian

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Hold firmly to your aspirations; tenacity breeds tenacity as success breeds success.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

Clifford had never been primarily out for money, though he made it where he could, for money is the seal and stamp of success.

He's got _go_, anyhow.' Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. 'In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his _go_ go to, what becomes of it?

when any action in our day-to-day life is motivated by some expectant result, or by what only appears to be a real condition or circumstance in our life, that expectant result is very likely to be dashed to pieces.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves.

Then let's go!

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

In a Nutshell - Fundamental Techniques In Handling People • Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain. • Principle 2 - Give honest and sincere appreciation. • Principle 3 - Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire ... and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.