Quotes About Motivation

I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

meant to give a new impulse to the race—to rouse human creatures to new moods, to thrust them into places where they see new things. Men and women are being dragged out of their self-absorbed corners and stirred up and shaken.

The first thing we agreed upon was that the first ingredient of relapse is the cold-water shock of success.

It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

Everybody wants to be a cheerleader." It seemed perfectly logical

I discovered how reading a book can make you want to write one.

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

was used to teachers just putting in time, not loaded with enthusiasm.

The word progressive, for example. It will never be known, said Charles Peguy, ''what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive. Yet the word is meaningless until we add meaning to it. It suggests movement in the right direction, but we have no idea what direction that is until we learn what goal we are progressing towards and why we should move toward it. Progressives seldom say; they just assume that everyone knows.

Cook advised aspiring authors against waiting for inspiration, which he believed to be the last resort of the lazy writer. He himself had written two 33,000-word stories a week for months at a time. And this was precisely the schedule Gardner set for

We have assumed that ancient houses were built like those of today – as weatherproof boxes for living in and raising families. So we have been very anxious to work out where people ate, slept and prepared their meals. It's all about what happened where – and we have discovered a great deal. But revealing where people slept or prepared their food makes little sense if we don't also try to appreciate what it was that motivated them to get out of bed every morning.

Nothing is written until you write it!

You see, I'm not above helping an unfortunate soul find new purpose in life…so long as it benefits me

Should' is my all time least favorite word! It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves and others.

Should' is my all time least favorite word! It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves and others.

When you show a man what he wants, he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

The way to become enthusiastic is to act with enthusiasm.

Frank Bettger

Frank Bettger

Force yourself to act enthusiastic, and you'll become enthusiastic.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow.

You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.