Quotes About Motivation

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves. The good news is that people generally rise to the level of expectations placed on them.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.

A writer has two choices: either write or curl up and die.

A writer should not wait for inspiration; it won't come. Inspiration is fueled by the act of writing, by the sweat of the effort, by the work.

Every writer has doubts. The only way to dispel them is to write.

If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise. If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell. But if I love thee for love of thyself, then grant me thyself.

Good leaders make heroes of others.

Influence and inspiration come from the person, not the position.

When people feel that their contributions are unappreciated, they will stop trying. And when that happens, innovation dies.

I consider myself a student of success. I'm no better or smarter than anyone else. I'm just another starving man showing others where the food is.

You don't need to look to other people to help you be successful. There's only one place you need to look in order to find the validation and motivation you need to find success. The mirror.

The problem for some people is when [motivational] speakers put out a consistently positive message it can be off-putting, and they start to feel like the speakers aren't relatable anymore.

Hurry to it, she thought, and quickened her stride. That's what Papa always says. If you want things, hurry to it. If you want things done, hurry to it.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who don't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves-people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.