Quotes About Motivation

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

When you find yourself slumping, that's the motivation to sit up, not out of self-denigration but actually out of pride in everything that occurs to you, pride in who you are just as you are, pride in the goodness or the fairness or the worstness of yourself—however you find yourself—some sort of sense of taking pride and using it to spur you on.

it's good to express our gratitude to others. It's helpful to express our appreciation of others. But if we do that with the motivation of wanting them to like us, we can remember this slogan. We can thank others, but we should give up all hope of getting thanked in return. Simply keep the door open without expectations.

Eventually it dawns on us that we can regret causing harm without becoming weighed down by negative shame. Just seeing the hurt and heartbreak clearly motivates us to move on. By acknowledging what we did, cleanly and compassionately, we go forward.

Teachers and helpers of all kinds will be of limited use if they are doing their work to build up their own egos. In fact, setting out to help others is a very quick way to pop the bubble of ego.

Death and hopelessness provide proper motivation—proper motivation for living an insightful, compassionate life.

La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado

Will-power is useless without a sense of direction.

Trago em mim o inconciliável e é este o meu motor.

What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature—without any more effort than is expended by the nonachievers.

If you have a goal that you still postpone, that means, it's not one of your strengths

The subject of this book is managing oneself for effectiveness.