Quotes About Motivation

No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.

I've discovered that if you want to reach your true potential, it's much more effective to ignite a new passion for life than to dwell on past problems.

The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

You'll need to drop the model of self-alienation that you learned as a child—the one that tells you, "You are lazy and need someone to force you to work.

Whenever you begin to feel overwhelmed by the large, grand project that looms before you, remind yourself, "I can take one small step. One small step; one rough, rough draft; one imperfect sketch; one small hello. That's all I need to do now.

Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.

The Now Habit perspective does not accept that laziness, disorganization, or any other character defect is the reason you procrastinate.

The Now Habit is based on the fact that somewhere in your life there are leisure activities and forms of work that you choose to do without hesitation [...] When you turn your attention toward what you love to do—activities that foster your spontaneity, motivation, and curiosity—you know that you are more than a procrastinator, more than just lazy.

Procrastination is not the cause of our problems with accomplishing tasks; it is an attempt to resolve a variety of underlying issues.

When you turn your attention toward what you love to do—activities that foster your spontaneity, motivation, and curiosity—you know that you are more than a procrastinator, more than just lazy.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

In most cases you are the one who confuses just doing the job with testing your worth. Replace 'I have to' with 'I choose to'.

Keep on starting and finishing will take care of itself.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

We do not see nature or intelligence or human motivation or ideology as "it" is but only as our languages are. And our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. Our metaphors create the content of our culture.

Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention.

without dissatisfaction, there's no basis for a sale.

Neil S. Plakcy

New York Times

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