Quotes About Motivation

Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist.

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You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

For who would live if life held no allurements?

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Why don't you light that candle ?

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.