Quotes About Motivation

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everyone knows how to lose weight—it's just a matter of wanting it badly enough to make it work

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

A man with nothing to fight for quickly becomes a frustrated man, often without a clue as to why.

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

If you honestly want to change, surround yourself with people who will help, people who believe you can do it.

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.

A man without a cause from God is often just an angry man who doesn't know where to direct his pent-up energy and aggression. A warrior with a cause from God directs that warlike energy for a cause greater than himself.

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?

Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.

You do what you do because of what you think of you

You can make excuses or you can make progress. But you can't make both.

I haven't figured out how to turn it on, but when I do I'm going to be hell on wheels.

because I wanted to

Don't ever stop living for anything. Chase your dreams, and catch them shits!

We never fooled around much, even though she was older. She was strange about that stuff. But I never cared really. its not why I brang her here anyways.

Jack Ma recalls saying to his son in 2015, "You don't need to be in the top three in your class, being in the middle is fine, so long as your grades aren't too bad. Only this kind of person [a middle-of-the-road student] has enough free time to learn other skills.

Winston Churchill was likewise a poor student, admitting that "Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

The transformative novelist J. K. Rowling has confessed to having "a distinct lack of motivation at university," her undistinguished record the result of spending "far too long in the coffee bar writing stories and far too little time at lectures.

They experience a 'divine discontent,' as Jeff Bezos called it," between what is and what might be—and they act.

Formative assessments nurture hope and say to students, 'You might not get this yet, but you will. Here is something else you can try that might help you understand and improve.' Formative assessment empowers teachers and students because it gives them specific information about individual performance. When teachers share the information with students, students have a concrete way to improve.

Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow.

Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!

Great managers play favorites and spend most of their time with their most productive people. Not because they discriminate, but because they deserve the attention and have so much to teach you.