Quotes About Motivation

In the morning when you rise reluctantly, let this thought be present: I am rising to do the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bedclothes and keep myself warm?

that no one does the wrong thing deliberately;

At break of day, when you are reluctant to get up, have this thought ready to mind: 'I am getting up for a man's work.

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: "I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm? —But it's nicer here. . . . So you were born to feel "nice"? Instead of doing things and experiencing them?

You could be good today. But instead, you choose tomorrow.

Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.

Foolish are those who…have no aim to which they can direct every impulse and, indeed, every thought.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Actually, the data reveals that checking in with your team members once a month is literally worse than useless. While team leaders who check in once a week see, on average, a 13 percent increase in team engagement, those who check in only once a month see a 5 percent decrease in engagement.

But the best managers have the solution: Ask. Ask your employee about her goals: What are you shooting for in your current role? Where do you see your career heading? What personal goals would you feel comfortable sharing with me? How often do you want to meet to talk about your progress?

During Gallup's interviews with great managers, we found a consistent willingness to hire employees who, the managers knew, might soon earn significantly more than they did.

procrastination in the face of poor performance is a fool's remedy.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

If I could give the young people ... but one word of advice, it would be this - 'Believe in yourself with all your might'. That is, believe that your destiny is inside you, that there is a power within you which if awakened, aroused, developed and matched with honest effort, will not only make a noble man or woman of you, but will also make you successful and happy.

I pick up favorite quotations, and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

If you do bad things for reasons you've been told are good, does it make you a bad person?

She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

What people want is perfection, said the man. In themselves. But they need the steps to it to be pointed out, said the woman. In a simple order, said the man. With encouragement, said the woman. And a positive attitude.

Fear is a powerful stimulant.

What he really wanted was revenge. But against whom, and for what? Even if he had the energy for it, even if he could focus and aim, such a thing would be less than useless.

She had her reasons. Not that they were ever the same as anybody else's reasons. She was completely ruthless in that way.