Quotes About Motivation

It's important to disrupt the depressive state with action, to create social connections and find a daily purpose, a compelling reason to get out of bed in the morning.

Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I will make it a productive one.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

See, winners embrace hard work.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

I seemed to be the only one who noticed, the only one who was concerned that doing the right thing for the wrong reason doesn't make you a person of integrity.

If our only motivation for taking down a giant is our freedom, then we won't have all the motivation that's needed. God's glory is also the motivation for us to walk in victory over the giants in our lives.

Evil people do tend to think they're the heroes of their own stories,

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss

The older I get the more I realize that the only thing a teacher has to go on is that rare spark in a boy's eye. And when you see that, Brian, you're an ass if you worry where it comes from. Whether it's an ode of Horace or an Icelandic saga or something that goes bang in a laboratory.

Richting geven aan je leven. Weinigen denken om richting. Doel voor energieken, richting voor de slapperen... Zelve moet je je richting vinden, geef aan je leven een mooie richting, een edel rhytme, vind het pad, want dat is alles...

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. you'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.