Quotes About Motivation

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

learning a passion to learn is more important for your practical success than learning any particular facts or skills.

Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.

She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.

There's never a good excuse for not doing anything—

book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,

Samuel Smiles's 1859 bestseller Self-Help (with illustrations of Character and Conduct).

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate!

Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Some start in life without any leading objective at all; some with a low one; and some aim high—and just in proportion to the elevation at which they aim will be their progress and success.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.6

reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.

SENECA OFFERS lots of specific advice on how to prevent anger. We should, he says, fight our tendency to believe the worst about others and our tendency to jump to conclusions about their motivations. We need to keep in mind that just because things don't turn out the way we want them to, it doesn't follow that someone has done us an injustice.

In a full-fledged case of desire, by way of contrast, a creature is able to form a mental representation of the thing it desires, compare the current state [sic] with the desired state, and initiate action to diminish these states. Only a creature with considerable brainpower will have these abilities.

To better understand the predicament of someone who is rational but emotionless, consider computers. Give a computer a program to run, and it will use flawless logic to execute it. But unless you give a computer a program to run, it will just sit there. Computers need a motivating force before they will do anything, and it is the job of the programmer to provide this motivating force. Damasio's patient was like an unprogrammed computer. His