Quotes About Motivation

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't just pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That makes you a winner right there.

To have some real work to do after more than a year of purposeless pottering was like a bracing visit to a cliff-bound coast after lethargic existence on a marshy lowland.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

Fear is a cold bastard. The only way to overcome it is to act—to take the first step and just move forward.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Create an environment where champions are inevitable.

In retaining employees and keeping them engaged, we'll cover the five activities of great (vs. good) managers: • Help people play to their strengths. • Don't demotivate; dehassle. • Set clear expectations and give employees a clear line of sight. • Give recognition and show appreciation. • Hire fewer people, but pay them more (frontline employees, not top leaders!).

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless. The most successful business leaders have a clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality.

The #1 demotivator for talented people is having to put up with bozos, as Steve Jobs would call them. Nothing is more frustrating for A Players than having to work with B and C Players who slow them down and suck their energy. In that sense, "The best thing you can do for employees — a perk better than foosball or free sushi — is hire only 'A' players to work alongside them. Excellent colleagues trump everything else

the writer Upton Sinclair once wrote: `It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Doing good to someone in order to reduce self-guilt will only ruin things for both of you.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up.

Procrastination is simply a way of deceiving yourself into believing your actions will be easier in the future.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

The world needs you to show up and follow your dreams.

If you remember that there is no single act of greatness, just a series of small acts done with great passion or great love p125

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. —Howard Thurman, philosopher and theologian

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.