Quotes About Motivation

training for the marathon is that in order to maintain a positive attitude about training and running, it is necessary to develop a positive attitude about life in general. It is almost impossible to be positive about

If you listen to what others say, you may not try at all. If you listen to your body, you may quit too soon. What your mind believes, your body believes. Your mind is the key.

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

If you can't run, then walk. And if you can't walk, then crawl. Do what you have to do. Just keep moving forward and never, ever give up.

The human body has limitations; the human spirit is boundless.

The only one who can tell you You can't is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike

If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.

Don't look back, something may be gaining on you.

This book was born as I was hungry. Let m eexplain.

My child, after a certain age, everything is the same as everything else and there's nothing that serves as a goal anymore.

Es el ego quien nos engaña para que pensemos que tenemos razones para hacer lo que sea necesario con tal de imponernos sobre aquellos que percibimos como nuestros enemigos.

Los verdaderos líderes son aquellos que conocen sus limitaciones y trabajan con ellas. Son fieles a sus palabras, predican con el ejemplo e inspiran a los demás a pasar a la acción por sí mismos.

This is the magic formula – desire toward a goal, which spawns action toward that goal. Continuous desire is the fuel. Daily action is the fire. The word "continuous" is important, as is the word "goal." Without these two operative functions, desires are scattered, actions are unfocused, and not much happens. With them, anything is achievable.

90% of the game is half mental.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf but by challenging the employees with change.

She was motivated by something else: impatience. To Aimee poverty was one of the world's sloppy errors, one among many, which might be easily corrected if only people would bring to the problem the focus she brought to everything.

It's hard to keep apocalypse consistently in mind, especially if you want to get out of bed in the morning.

Out of an expanse of time, you carve a little area—that nobody asked you to carve—and you do something. 20

I can't rid myself of the need to do "something," to make "something," to feel that this new expanse of time hasn't been "wasted.

the surest motivation I know, the one I feel deepest within myself, and which, when all is said, done, stripped away - as it is at the moment - seems to be at the truth of the matter for a lot of people, to wit: it's something to do. [...] Why did you bake that banana bread? It was something to do. Why did you make a fort in your living room? Well, it's something to do. Why dress the dog as a cat? It's something to do, isn't it? Fills the time.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

You dream… or you're driven mad.