Quotes About Motivation

People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can achieve, and yet, for an equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot. I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you and you can have the things you want.

A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that's what he or she decided to do …

DAY ACTION IDEAS FOR PUTTING THE STRANGEST SECRET TO WORK FOR YOU

A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal.

Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you've reached your goal.

The difference is goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple. Failures, on the other hand, believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances … by things that happen to them … by exterior forces.

Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal.

But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.

A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can't go anywhere until you change it.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Aim high and soar with a positive outlook.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges.

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

You can move a leader's feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.

Once you achieve a certain level of success, no matter where you are, what you're doing, don't be content with that level. Push yourself to another level. People that are successful are always pushing.

The original statement of cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) proposed that discrepancy between cognitions creates a negative affective state that motivates individuals to attempt to reduce or eliminate the discrepancy between cognitions