Quotes About Motivation

Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Our beliefs either propel us to or prevent us from living to our fullest potential. Our beliefs determine whether we fail or succeed, and how we define success in the first place.

People aren't too different from lab rats. We seek out rewarding experiences and steer clear of punishing ones. If interaction with you is a disagreeable event, people will avoid it. (from chapter 12) tl;dr people aren't too different from lab rats

Kyung-sook's mother had taken it as an example that even if you started with nothing, with enough studying, one could accomplish everything.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

It's not about the elimination of fear. Rather it's about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.

You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you.

Either we are running 'from' what we fear or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

Either we are running 'from' what we fear, or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

The continuation of man's life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

If you don't plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.