Quotes About Motivation

Those who accomplish don't sit around, hoping things will happen to them...

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.

No one rises to low expectations

Live full, die empty

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

You are what you are because that is what you really want to be! We make decisions and those decisions make us who were are! You can judge anything in the world by this. God builds up and the Devil tears down.

Are people innately altruistic? is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.

No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn't. You made a painting instead.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. I want to be a motivational speaker. What are you going to motivate people to do? Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. You know. Motivational ... stuff.

Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are doing right and just in their actions.

Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war-torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid?

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Aww, Sheba. So you're working for Evie. Honestly, who isn't working for himself in this meshuga world? Some people just hide it better than others.

Write like it matters, and it will.

Never use limitations as an excuse for mediocrity.

The strongest catalysts are specific actions.