Quotes About Motivation

With classrooms like this one, people will call what is happening a behavioral issue," Hamre said. We were watching one of Stella's kids wiggling and squirming and contorting her face and altogether doing whatever she could to avoid her teacher. "But one of the things we find is that this sort of thing is more often an engagement problem than a behavioral problem. If the teacher is actually doing something interesting, these kids are quite capable of being engaged.

Marita doesn't need a brand-new school with acres of playing fields and gleaming facilities. She doesn't need a laptop, a smaller class, a teacher with a PhD, or a bigger apartment. She doesn't need a hight IQ or a mind as quick as Chris Langan's. All those things would be nice, of course. But they miss the point. Marita just need a chance. And look at the chance she was given! Someone brought a little bit of the rice paddy to the South Bronx and explained to her the miracle of meaningful work.

If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.

if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

What matters, in determining the likelihood of getting a science degree, is not just how smart you are. It's how smart you feel relative to the other people in your classroom.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Success is dependant on effort.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

Your success and happiness start with you.

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.

The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.

The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.

Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on-it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim. I'm not a machine.