Quotes About Motivation

There's a lot of good things about you, and there's a lot of good things that you can do with your life.

The gap between what we are, and what we want to be, can be filled by the belief what we can do.

She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that, since I wished, some day, to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write.

Si j'avais vos dispositions, je crois bien que j'écrirais du matin au soir

And even in my most carnal desires, orientated always in a particular direction, concentrated round a single dream, I might have recognised as their primary motive an idea, an idea for which I would have laid down my life, at the innermost core of which, as in my day-dreams while I sat reading all afternoon in the garden at Combray, lay the notion of perfection.

whatever reason they give, simply don't want to be killed, it's nothing but funk." And with a more emphatic gesture than when he alluded to others, "And if I don't rejoin my regiment, it's for the same reason.

Wenn man etwas tut, um anderen zu gefallen, kann es nicht gelingen, aber bei den Dingen, die man tut, um sich selbst zu zufriedenzustellen, besteht immer die Aussicht, dass sie auch das Interesse von anderen wecken.

Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there's no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn't matter if you are alive or dead.

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success—and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?

Someone bathes in haste; don't say he bathes badly, but in haste. Someone drinks a lot of wine; don't say he drinks badly, but a lot. Until you know their reasons, how do you know that their actions are vicious?

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

The Four Keys of Great Managers: 1. "When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination." 2. "When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps." 3. "When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses." 4. "When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

it's little things like that, the words of a song, which can give you the strength to go on.

And the way out of that is mental, in your mind. Don't buckle under to the hurt, rev up your spirit and your motivation, attack the courses. Tell yourself precisely how much you want to be here." The

Initiative, combined with