Quotes About Motivation

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done.

We do not appreciate inertia's power over us. Given the choice, we prefer to do nothing

What's going on here? Why do our discipline and decisiveness fade at the end of the day, to the point where we opt to do nothing instead of doing something enjoyable or useful? It's not because we're inherently weak. It's because we're weakened. The

Mojo" is, "That positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside

Just because people understand what to do doesn't ensure that they will actually do it.

people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

But the higher up you go in the organization, the more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.

Whether you're leading other people or leading the follower in you, the obstacles to achieving your goals are the same.

Today is the first day of the rest of my push-up.

I do twenty jumping jacks a day. Well, half of that. I just clap.

When you want something, you make the time. Not excuses.

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can

Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.

This book should be in the briefcase of every exec in the world and should be pulled out every day for a refresher on how to be a real leader.

As a people leader, your job is to inspire your employees to bring their personal greatness to work every day

about the work they do.

you have to deal with yourself and your beliefs about life, about people, and about motivation and trust.

Is the primary motive behind your appearance to please God or to please yourself? Do you want to be charming and beautiful for God's glory in order to draw attention to Him, or for your own glory in order to draw attention to yourself?

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

I felt a wave of non-caring about to come over me, and I knew I couldn't let it. If I was going to follow my plan, such as it was, I needed to care. If I let myself not care, then there was no telling where I'd end up.

I know this sounds suspiciously like a rationale I had come up with to keep from doing something I didn't want to do anyway, but hey, I can't help that.)