Quotes About Motivation

It's always good to be underestimated.

I've found that people work harder when they are held accountable, and their confidence level rises along with that.

No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done.

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Leaders need to have a fire in their heart, and a good reason for being—the

Cinderella Rule #16 Standards. Goals. Everyone has them. Or should. But before you judge yourself a success or failure, make certain the standards you're applying are your own. And that the goals you're trying to achieve aren't being pursued for the wrong reasons.

classmate of mine once complained to a professor about a book he was required to read. He claimed it was as dry as dust. "Well," said the professor, "why don't you dampen it with a little sweat from your

Hurdles are there to jump over not to stand in front and wonder

As we learn from our yesterday our today gets clearer. Breathe and go forward

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn't a learned behavior. It's just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

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Here's a good question for you—is greatness in a person born or made?" Tom didn't have an answer. "I think it's a combination." Bert scratched at the bandage on his chin. "Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn't a learned behavior. It's just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes.

Barry Eisler.

Just as a parent is pleased with the efforts of his little child to please him, though it be only by picking a daisy or walking across a room, so is our Father in heaven pleased with the poor performances of His believing children. He looks at the motive, principle, and intention of their actions, and not merely at their quantity and quality. He regards them as members of His own dear Son,

Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action: it "worketh by love," and, like a main-spring, moves the whole inward man. (Gal. v. 6.)

We can depend upon it that people will never come to Jesus and stay with Jesus and live for Jesus unless they really know why they are to come and what their need is.

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Influence is one thing; determination is another.

Since when was being tired an excuse to stop trying?

Begeisterung ist keine Heringsware, die man einpökelt auf einige Jahre.

Each emotional system is hierarchically arranged throughout much of the brain, interacting with more evolved cognitive structures in the higher reaches, and specific physiological and motor outputs at lower levels.

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.