Quotes About Motivation

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Women need a reason to have sex; men need only a place.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

I have retired, but if there is anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Maybe that was why Anna admired people with passion. A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

Criminals were a lazy bunch. If they weren't, they'd get their MBAs and rob with impunity.

A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

Desire is the mainspring of the mental machinery. It is a blessed thing. It is a right and natural craving which has a state of consciousness as its right and natural satisfaction.

When a man believes in the value of the advice given him and applies it, he establishes within himself the reality of success.

Revision is of greatest importance when the motive is to change oneself, when there is a sincere desire to be something different, when the longing is to awaken the ideal active spirit of forgiveness.

The essential points in the successful use of the law of assumption are these: First, and above all, yearning; longing; intense, burning desire. With all your heart you must want to be different from what you are. Intense, burning desire [combined with intention to make good] is the mainspring of action, the beginning of all successful ventures. In every great passion [which achieves its objective], desire is concentrated [and intentioned. You must first desire and then intend to succeed].

If you don't have specific goals written down for your life, you are mentally malnourished. Your mind was designed to be fed with goals just as your body was designed to be fed with food and water.

If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do—and don't do it.

High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods.

while I was making excuses, others just like me were making progress.

Doers, on the other hand, act their way into feeling. After determining what needs to be done based on their goals, doers take action. They just do it. If they don't feel like taking action, they consider that emotion a distraction and take action in spite of it. They refuse to let their craving for short-term comfort divert them from their long-term goal and the blessings that go along with it.

When you choose to write down compelling goals, you are simultaneously choosing a compelling future. Exciting goals foreshadow an exciting future.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.