Quotes About Motivation

I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.

One step at a time,' he muttered to himself as he clambered up the slope. That was the only way to look at it. If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

A Positive Attitude makes a Powerful Mind." --Mrs. Pike from The Babysitters' Club book Hello, Mallory

All motivators are valid if they produce good work, son. And frustration can be a powerful motivator.

Figure out what your gift is,Edward Adler, and then blow that shit up.

Sylvie aced the classes she was interested in but got C's or D's in everything else. Julia had operated her determination like a lawn mower and mowed through high school with the next step in her sights.

Her father had called Julia his rocket ever since she was a little girl—I can't wait to watch you fly, he'd say—and she was the one who fixed problems.

My words are my wings. They send me soaring. My words are my wings, and, I hope, never boring

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

You're working wonders for her self-esteem.

Oh que ça m'énerve, ça! Bien sûr, c'est plus facile de se dire qu'on est nul et ne rien faire! Bien sûr! C'est une fatalité! C'est si simple de penser qu'on est maudit! Alors quoi? Quels sont tes projects maintenant?

J'aime les gens qui prennent leur vie en main, moi ! Je n'aime pas les feignants qui se font plaindre.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

She wasn't sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.

Nothing made her want to strip a man naked more than knowing he had good ideas

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!

Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!