Quotes About Motivation

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.

sublimation concept—in which the term refers to an actual deinstinctualization of drive rather than to a rechanneling of

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

when other-motivated people (no previous SM desires or fantasies) are offered a safe chance to experience it, their reaction will put them into one of three groups with about equal frequency.

Great quotes are like great medicine; they can cure us when we are down—written in 2008 by Jay Xiong

Self-motivation without gratitude is impossible. Our energy is "sapped" when our entire focus is on what's wrong instead of what is right with our lives. One of our greatest challenges is to live and love in spite of pain and disappointment...to find gratitude in the midst of it all. -Jayadeva De Silva

As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

If You Can Dream It, You Can Be It!

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't, because they didn't.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.

What we need is hatred, from it our ideas are born

What happened to perfectly capable kids who'd been so bombarded with help that they felt helpless to do anything on their own? Or the kids who'd been so driven at home, they'd never had to find their own drive? It couldn't be good, she thought.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. I get inspiration from working. I just have to push through and finally it'll start to come together again. The brain is always going, you just don't realize it.

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Managers who can give them some security, along with some nurturance, may well find themselves with the hardest-working group of young people to come along in a decade or even two.

Convinced that the world is against them, some young people have decided there's no point in trying, a viewpoint linked to failure. Countering this view will be one of the biggest challenges of the next decade.