Quotes About Motivation

Edward Slingerland

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of God).

Procrastination is the thief of time.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.

But what is clear about pain universally is this: To the extent that we are motivated to get on with life, we seem to be able to tolerate more pain; in other words, our threshold seems to increase. Conversely, to the extent that we are unmotivated to get out of our chair, our threshold seems to go down.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Become a motivator of writing, not the butcher of it; similarly, become an editor, not the copy editor.

Enhance actions, to enhance your prospects and projects of life.

Everyone is selfish in various ways. Indeed, it is tough to accept and say; I am selfish.

Having no reason is also a reason.

Never depend on others; rely on your self-confidence since it is a route to the destination of success.

No one subsists, without ambition; nothing exists, without reason.

Such friendship and relationship, stay durable and stable if that holds love and sincerity; conversely, if that motivates the motive and insincerity, results in nothing than failure.

Your thoughts and feelings create ways of your life that you dream.

A day in a man's life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

Kalau orang muda tidak dapat menggantungkan cita-cita besar dalam jiwanya, siapa lagi yang dapat?

Unlike other men, he was able to find pleasure in any job that he was given, but this was not simply because he was born poor. Rather, he saw the work at hand as a preparation for the next task. He was convinced that this was the way he would one day realize his ambitions.

How to make his mother, whom he imagined to be the unhappiest person in the world, the happiest, was what drove him on.

What is it about the January feeling— past everything else, low-glowing hunger that propels me around

Every session you lead has two radio stations: WII-FM (What's in It for Me?) and MMFG-AM (Make Me Feel Good About Me).

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.