Quotes About Motivation

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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

Discipline is not just about punishing yourself, it's about creating habits that lead to success.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and achievement.

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. … But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

If you wait for inspiration to write, you're not a writer. You're a waiter.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth

A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

Some lead by example, like Rand Fishkin of Moz (formerly SEOmoz), who says his goal is to create a hundred new millionaires — then issued additional stock grants for every Moz employee as a part of the Series B funding, directly out of his personal holdings, to ensure that a financing round wouldn't be dilutive.

We remain young to the degree that our ambitions are greater than our memories.

Personal confidence comes from making progress toward goals that are far bigger than your present capabilities.

That's what real leadership is: Creating and clarifying the vision (the "what"), and giving that vision greater context and importance (the "why") for all Whos involved.

I don't think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

Just do it.

Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs.

Work left undone for years affects people's moods, their feelings about themselves, their ability to work creatively, and their hopes for the future.

I'm going to wake up. I'm

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

Studies show that even a brief connection with a role model can vastly increase unconscious motivation.