Quotes About Motivation

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and to obtain at least a part of it.

It seems flippant to suggest that Hitler determined to invade Russia because he could not think what else to do, but there is something in this

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Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

St. Paul's "He who will not work shall not eat" holds

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings" (Prov. xxii. 29).

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed with Psycho-Cybernetics!

Get yourself a goal worth working for.

The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully.

If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals that are worthwhile.

You can be happy now as well as every single day you are working toward achieving your goals. When you discover happiness along the way—instead of expecting that you can only be happy once you've achieved a goal— then you've already fulfilled the promise of Psycho-Cybernetics.

Do not allow yourself to become discouraged if nothing seems to happen when you set about practicing the various techniques outlined in this book for changing your self-image.

Creative Imagination is not something reserved for the poets, the philosophers, the inventors. It enters into our every act. For imagination sets the goal "picture" that our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of "will," as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

psychologist Daniel W. Josselyn wrote in his book Why Be Tired?:

When you do see a thing clearly in your mind, the creative Success Mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort, or "willpower.

List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past. What matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered, reinforced, and dwelt upon.

You can have many goals, but concentrating on just one at a time will help you accomplish far more than attempting to focus on many at once. Get the fire of desire started within being single-minded about one goal and the flame will naturally spread to the others without you forcing it. 4.

1. Your built-in Success Mechanism must have a goal or "target." This goal, or target, must be conceived of as "already in existence—now" either in actual or potential form.

if you would picture the end result—see the ball going where you wanted it to go—and have the confidence to know that it was going to do what you wanted, your subconscious would take over and direct your muscles correctly.