Quotes About Motivation

And so chubby, sugar-brained Jack invented exercise. He became the hero who could do a thousand jumping jacks and a thousand chin-ups in ninety minutes. The muscle that trained itself to finish 1,033 push-ups in twenty minutes by climbing a twenty-five-foot rope with 140 pounds of weight strapped to his belt.

He swam backward through time, lap after lap, until he was six years old and watching Jack LaLanne tow a thousand-pound boat through San Francisco Bay, until that feeling returned -- that deep boy certainty: Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough. Scott wasn't old, it turned out. He wasn't finished. He had just given up.

You confuse our higher and lower functions, harnessing our drives and motivating us down an unnatural path, one in which human beings are reprogrammed to covet products and ignore reality.

Human beings perform best in an environment of unconditional support. That happens when someone looks at you and sees your full capacity, potential, and greatness. That person knows that you can do it, sees that you can do it, and holds you to that.

The reason we don't reach our goals is three-fold: We're going after something we don't really want. That's why sometimes, we have to perform Goal Replacement Surgery. Three kinds of goals require Goal Replacement Surgery: 1. Impossible goals. 2. Someone else's goals. 3. Goals you don't really want anymore.

Who are you trying to protect, punish or please by not succeeding?

Believing in yourself is the last, not the first stage, in the evolution of success. The first stage is someone believes in you. The second stage is you believe in someone else. The final stage is you believe in you.

Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

What is effective for increasing motivation and the willingness to take on challenges is focusing praise on the child's effort, on what the child has done, not on an ability he can't control (such as intelligence) or on the final result (which he may not easily be able to replicate).

KEY CONCEPT Superlative Praise = vague, exaggerated, and ineffective Wow, your homework is fantastic! Descriptive Praise = specific, true, and motivating You answered all the questions on this worksheet, even though you weren't sure about some of the answers. You didn't leave any blanks. You challenged yourself and wrote down something for every single question.

Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him

You can fix anything but a blank page.

You can't edit a blank page

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

The reasons why people cannot achieve their goals are not because they lack abilities or character, but because they are setting their goals in a wrong way and trying to achieve them in a wrong way. " – Takashi Harada

When people pick strong goals, with purposes and values that serve not only themselves but also serve others, their entire character changes." – Takashi Harada

Having dreams and goals helps guide people in the right direction. It helps them build great character and it eventually helps them succeed in their lives.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision." – Muhammad Ali

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.