Quotes About Motivation

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

A vontade não é de cada um e em cada dia?

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

What's so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care.

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I'm a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

Don't be closer to twice a friend's weight than to her actual weight," I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off obesity for more than two decades.

It's been proven that writers are funnier when they are demoralized.

But for years I just chose to never do any strength training because it seemed hard. It wasn't until a particularly disturbing night when I couldn't lift myself off the sofa because of lack of upper body strength that I decided it was time to see a trainer. I

I get worried that telling girls how difficult it is to be confident implies a tacit expectations that girls won't be able to do it.

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true. • Well … I guess the people who work hard whose dreams don't come true don't get to write books about it, so we never really find out what happens to them. So … • If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true.

It's just that, the truth is, I have never, ever, ever met a highly confident and successful person who is not what a movie would call a "workaholic." We can't have it both ways, and children should know that. Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it. THE

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true

No matter how good you have it, it's cool to want more. (P.83)

A bunch of unearned trophies around the house would make me hooked on awards, which is bad in general, but especially bad if you don't deserve them. The whole experience made me want to win another trophy, but win it for actually doing something great.

There are more than a thousand people in one square mile of this studio who would kill to have this job. Get your ass up off the floor and go back into that writers' room, you weakling. Then I get up, pour myself a generous glass of whiskey and club soda, think about the sustained grit of my parents, and go back to work. I know that made me sound like a tortured alcoholic, like Don Draper, but I swear I'm not.

Never underestimate the value of gorgeous when it comes to keeping a place clean. Beauty motivates when nothing else will. That doesn't mean you have to do a complete renovation. It is just a reminder that attractive spaces are more likely to stay clean than unattractive ones.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.' Eric Hoffer

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

I have to do it to day. It's the first day of the rest of my life. Oh. I had a day like that last week. Really? What happened? I woke up and thought, This is the first day of the rest of my life. Then what happened? I drove to work. Oh.

The heart's intent cannot be known. Don't delay! Act on the charge!

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make 'em think.

Murphy's Law; When someone says 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' nine times out of ten, it's the money.