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Quotes About Motivation

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way.
~ Jerry Rice
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
~ Napoleon Hill
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.
~ Mike Ditka
It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.
~ Paulo Coelho
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
~ Hugh B. Brown
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.
~ Paul J. Meyer
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
~ Bruce Lee
A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
~ Napoleon Hill
Habit is stronger than desire.
~ Mike Murdock
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
~ Denis Waitley
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
~ John Locke
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
~ Dallas Willard
I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.
~ Selena Gomez
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
~ Walter Scott
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
~ Zig Ziglar
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
~ Bill Shoemaker
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
~ Stanley Kunitz
It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
~ Gaston Bachelard
My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
~ Nia Vardalos
I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
~ Claude Monet
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
~ Ovid
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
~ Napoleon Hill