Quotes About Motivation

There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now.

It's good to go off and write a novel, but don't stop doing writing practice.

keep your hand moving

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

There are no limits to your dreams, aspirations or power!

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

If you're having a bad day, CHANGE YOUR MIND and have a good day!

For some people, the pain and effort of exercise makes it difficult. But others live off of getting that second wind and the improvements to their body, and so they use that to push through the pain.

A button machine makes buttons, no matter what the power used, foot, steam or electricity. They, no matter what the motivating force, death, love or God, made jokes.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause

If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: 'What's good in my life?' and 'What needs to be done?

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.