Quotes About Motivation

Those who don't set goals in life end up being controlled by those who do.

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

In life, we have either reasons or results

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to.

I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate.

When you feel good you uplift your life, and you uplift the world.

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.