Quotes About Motivation

You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm

To sustain momentum through a period of difficult change, you have to find ways to remind people of the orienting value—the positive vision—that makes the current angst worthwhile.

Our words channel our thoughts. Our concepts drive our thinking. Our ideas shape our actions.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

I don't mind a brother or sister in Christ calling me or any other believer a coward, moron, blind, immoral, demonic, and lacking in grace if it's true and motivated by love.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

Just laying there in bed is like waiting for death and doing nothing about it.

Don't just crit there siticising.

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

Hay momentos en los que me parece que no siento nada y que puedo trabajar, luego la angustia regresa con el desánimo.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

It will be our revenge and our reason. I have made it my catalyst and my propeller. It seems only fair don't you think?

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

the secret is not to speak to a person's cynicism, but to speak to her passion.

Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.

Laziness is almost as compelling as life.

one could never remind one's own daughter, or one's own self, too often of the power she had within.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.