Quotes About Motivation

Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?

Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions—discouragement and despair—and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

If you're not working on behalf of your own mission and purpose, you're working on behalf of someone else's.

People who are unhappy and frustrated in their work either have invalid mission and purposes—"I want to make a million dollars before I'm twenty-one"—or they don't have one and are serving someone else's, and some part of them understands this at some deep level.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to prepare to win is everything.

My purpose here isn't to elevate your success regardless, but simply to provide you with the opportunity to do so.

Goals you can control, objectives you cannot. By following your behavioral goals, you get to your objectives.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Determined people working together can do anything.

Nurture your nature.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.

Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If I say, "I ought to pray," I will soon run out of motivation and quit; the flesh is too strong. I have to be driven to pray.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.

I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

show excitement about how things work, do things with your children, and become excited about what they and you discover, and you will probably raise self-motivated, curious, and creative children.

Kids with parents who are less concerned about their flunking and more concerned about giving their kids an opportunity to think about flunking develop kids who think and rarely flunk. Their parents aren't going to worry about it, so they'd better.

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'

If you're screwing up and people aren't saying anything, that means they have given up.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.