Quotes About Motivation

An idea that nobody is born to be a failure.

Many people looking back on the effects of tragedy in their lives conclude that there was nothing else that would have been a strong enough motivation to change—that the most extreme suffering was needed to drive them toward their soul's mission.

Or would you just sit around smoking pot all day, rebelling against yourself?

I'll keep these same photographs pinned to a wall above my desk as tiny parables.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

You can't put a limit on aything. The more you dream, the father you get.

If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.

I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Goodly intentions are no use without goodly sums of money, Watson.

Ultimately, intelligence work isn't about satellites, budgets, oversight committees, or high-tech gadgetry. It's about the motivation and skills of your people.

whether or not you are already there, you will probably agree that a Stage Six default is worthy of your aspirations in just about any area of life. Life is a wonderful occasion. Rising to that occasion means becoming far bigger than your roles. That is the breakthrough to Stage Six. I also see this stage as the major part of a new and apt definition of positive mental health. Stage Six is the first of the two Target Stages. A Default Stage here breaks you out of the pack

According to Panksepp, seven primal emotional and motivational feelings that appear to be common features of animal and human consciousness at both a behavioral and a neural level are SEEKING, FEAR, RAGE, LUST, CARE, GRIEF, and PLAY.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style

hate is the most useless of all emotions. Success is the best revenge.

Laziness will kill even the strongest warrior.

Gracias. —¿Por qué? —Por regalarme un día más. —No lo hice por ti —reconoció con una sonrisa—, lo hice por motivos puramente egoístas. —El Alquimista arqueó las cejas a modo de pregunta silenciosa—. Lo hice por mí. No estaba dispuesta a vivir un día sin ti.

We are more willing to invest in defending what is already ours than we are to take what is someone else's, because the motivation to avoid losing what we already have is greater than the motivation of gaining what we don't yet have.

It won't suck itself - Arisen Book 9 - Allie

A core feature of this chapter is the notion that thoughts don't need to be true to have powerful effects on mood and motivation. Because of this, it is important to treat thoughts as guesses about the world, rather than facts.

You have to have the vision of what it is you are going to achieve by the hard work, but more importantly, you have to find a way to make the hard work fun … every workout is a small competition within yourself. John "Big Jake" Carenza, 1972 Olympics – Soccer

Powerful Leaders have high expectations by faith that each day will be the first day of the rest of their life; what are you expecting?

Powerful Leaders passionately dream big and are intentional with the emotional tension that may try to block it; what's blocking your dream?