Quotes About Motivation

Research shows that people getting healthy together lose twice as much weight as those who do it alone.

Many diets and fitness plans use guilt as a motivation, but that never works in the long run.

You can guilt yourself into doing anything short-term, but the change will last only as long as the guilt (or fear) does.

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.

Sin un propósito, la vida es una marcha sin sentido, un movimiento sin dirección y sucesos sin motivos. La vida sin propósito es trivial, insignificante e inútil.

Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.

Hey, if you don't believe in yourself, then who will?

Get up at once, you lazy little beast!

Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Goals and plans are fine, and they can often be effective motivators, but success promises something it can't deliver. As soon as you reach your goal, success creates a new one, which creates new anxieties and stresses.

And if you keep telling people who they are, who their best selves are, if you keep reminding them of their true identity, there's a good chance they'll figure out what to

The Japanese have a word for what gets you out of bed in the morning: they call it your ikigai. Your ikigai is that sense you have when you wake up that this day matters, that there are new experiences to be had, that you have work to do, a contribution to make. Sometimes this is referred to as your calling, other times your vocation, your destiny, your path. Your ikigai is your reason for being.

When you pursue your path, exploring the possibilities as you search for your ikigai, pay careful attention to things that make you angry and get you all riled up and provoke you to say, Someone should do something about that!!! The someone may be you.

There was a giant paradox there, hiding in that love. She didn't make any demands, but what that did was make me want to be a better person. She loved me exactly as I was, but what that produced in me was a tremendous desire to live up to that love.

Why do we do the things that we do?

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Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

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He might love to read, but he was certainly no greasy grind.

The newspaper columnist James Reston wrote that "President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

You're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don't stop thinking with your fingers

Just about everything a Nice Guy does is consciously or unconsciously calculated to gain someone's approval or to avoid disapproval.

What one man can do, another man can do.

The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.