Quotes About Motivation

Two more years: then I'll get my diploma and I'm done.' 'No, don't ever stop: I'll give you the money, you should keep studying.' I gave a nervous laugh, then said, 'Thanks, but at a certain point school is over.' 'Not for you: you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.' She got up, took off her underpants and bra, said, 'Come on, help me, otherwise I'll be late.

And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.

Você se engana, a verdade é que tudo parece já feito e você não tem nenhum bom motivo para se esforçar. Sente apenas a culpa pelo que você é sem ter merecido.

Reading brought on a desire to write, and writing brought on a desire to read.

Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art—only that it exists.

Va a costar mucho trabajo motivar a Sophie para cometer uno o varios crímenes, ya que su naturaleza la inclina a no esforzarse demasiado.

The life does not have meaning when we do not have goals.

I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing and why.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I

You cannot wait to be in the mood of prayer; you have to use the spur of your Prayer Rule to force yourself to pray," as Sergei Fudel writes in his excellent book Light in the Darkness.[xliii

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

I once had a conversation with the director of a monastery. "Everyone who comes to us," he said, "does so for the wrong reasons." The same is generally true of people who become psychotherapists. It is sometimes possible to persuade people to be come psychotherapists who have not chosen the profession for their own personal reasons; but, for the most part, we have to put up with what we get; namely, ourselves.

Discipline is remembering what you want

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.