Quotes About Motivation

Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you.

It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.

The celebration of one success launches a thousand more.

My drive is other people's success.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

You can really Lead Without a Title.

In any case, even the most corrupt of us finds it hard to believe in evil unless it is based on some interest. We reject the idea of harm done for no cause and without gain as anomalous.

There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons, continued the sailor;

There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons

Nothing inspires a man like a solid argument

Mais, pour lire les auteurs étrangers, je ne sais ni le grec, ni l'anglais, ni l'allemand.   - Parbleu  ! la belle affaire, vous apprendrez ces langues-là.   - Comment  ?   - Je n'en sais rien. Mais retenez ceci : on apprend toujours ce que l'on veut apprendre ;

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed—whether she's writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game—is to do everything possible to help her fall in love with what she's doing, to pay less attention to how successful she was (or is likely to be) and show more interest in the task. That's just another way of saying that we need to encourage more, judge less, and love always.

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a how answer to what is really a why question.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

No man can think, feel, will, nor even dream, without everything being defined, conditioned, limited, directed by a goal which floats before him.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle. He was dedicated.

It's figuring out the why of things; the final factor that makes a person act can be so damn elusive, but you can always find some motivation, if you look hard enough. The wrong word said at the wrong time, a gun in the wrong hand, the wrong woman who kisses you just right. Money, love, or fury - those are the causes for most everything.

Math plus desire equals who you are.

want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.