Quotes About Motivation

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.

I think she's the foundation of everything I've done. I think, definitely, my mother's fear of failure helps make me more resilient and helps make me persevere.

People often ask me for the secret to success. Usually, they mean success in the music industry, but I think the answer applies to most things in life: always persevere and never give up.

In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

Niekas taip neskatina žmogaus veikti, kaip troškimas nustebinti tuos, kurie juo abejoja.

Hvis man regner med belønning for sin godhed, er det ikke godhed, men beregning.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.

In der Nacht waren sie der Gegenstand seiner Träume, und während des Tages trieb ihn der Eifer, seinem Vorbild ähnlich zu werden, hinaus und stachelte ihn zu dem Vorsatz an, die gleichen Taten zu verrichten.

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

Some people are born into their passions. Some never get them and don't care. But I think if you're really struggling to find it - and I think you have, I mean, you've gone all over the country to find it - it's almost certainly for a reason. I think the depth of your struggling is the sign there's something there. Something in you that's trying to get out. People who don't have passions don't struggle.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control," she explains. "They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence, because they'll quit when the rewards disappear.

It didn't matter if you were rich or poor, black or white, healthy or ill. Across every cohort, controlling for all variables, if you had "a sense of purpose" you stayed healthy, and if you didn't have a sense of purpose, you didn't stay healthy. It was more powerful for your health than exercising every day. It was more important than smoking or drinking. It was pretty much the strongest determinator of your future health.