Quotes About Motivation

walking nowhere on a treadmill seemed rather pointless

you need to take the initiative.

A lazy brain does no one any good.

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job... It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.

Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.

Get out of that comfortable rut.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall short of your potential.

The trick, Teddy had long since learned, was to stay busy and stay focused. They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.

After all your years climbing around in people's heads like a cranial janitor, do you think people know why they do things? People rationalize, they turn their delusions into something romantic that they can disguise as ethics or principles or ideals. People are selfish, Doctor- odiously, monstrously, but in so small and paltry a monstrousness that we barely notice it.

There seemed to be little rhyme or reason as to why one day snatching the correct words from the ether was like opening a faucet and other days it was like opening a vein

when people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do

A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you (102) - Tony Gonzalez, The Giant Within

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!

There were some chains you wore because you wanted to.