Quotes About Motivation

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

What is so 'only' about 'yourself'? Is not the first thing one has to learn in this respect that to do something for yourself--I mean, the right kind of thing--is just as valuable and ethical than to do it for somebody else? Wouldn't you say that the good feeling we get simply because we did 'it' (whatever) for somebody else is cheating, in that it postpones the question: what is it good for?

A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.

As soon as someone drivers their attention from any team to ask, "How am I doing?" he takes his concern and energy from the task and shifts them to the question of his own adequacy or deficiency. The best motivation for doing a job well is the satisfaction of doing it.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Remember, the best time to get a new job is when you already have one.

Challenge yourself to the limits of your fears. Get moving on.

Stick with the ones who have vision. The ones who can not only dream it, but can also make it happen. Stick with the winners, baby.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

shall have to write some raunchy stuff if I'm going to make much money.

Feeling down and out? Lift up your head and shout— 'It's a great day!

man,' I said to him, 'with the proper determination and ambition can study sufficiently at night to win his desire.

The opportunity to attain great wealth is within the reach of almost every man and woman. Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow.

We can't all be investigating non-coding DNA," I said, feeling an upsurge of gastric acid. "Some of us have to sell bullshit self-improvement courses

There are two kinds of photographers, the ones who take pictures for a magazine, and the ones who gain something by taking pictures they are interested in.

The fat just walks away

Learning games are instructional environments that are entertaining enough to motivate play and educational enough to promote learning goals.