Quotes About Motivation

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.

The reason why success comes so easily and naturally for one person, and is a struggle for someone else, is essentially this: one person has organized his or her mind to think the way he wants, and another thinks against his or her own interests.

It is not the object of your search that is important; it is the faculty of looking. The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today. Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.

In the creative world, ideas are worthless unless they are acted on.

An extra 1% self-belief every day gets you almost 100% in three months

If you wait too long for the perfect idea, your creativity will stay between your ears in inertia.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

The most important thing is to stay positive.

Articulating and expanding your motivation when you wake up in the morning has the power to change your whole day.

When we contemplate our motivation, we expand our attitude from being concerned with just ourselves to caring for the whole world.

The point of handling our motivation is not necessarily to channel it into a drive to be successful; that would be ambition. Rather, the point is to

First you must come to the conclusion that the activity is important. Then you should make it a daily occurrence, in which every day you motivate yourself in a different way.

If your motivation when you get up in the morning is to have very little contact with anyone, come home, and go to bed as soon as you can, almost everything that occurs during the day will make you feel brittle and irritable, because it's in your way.

What is my motivation?

Contemplation is essentially a process of convincing ourselves. We have read books and heard lectures, but now we must make our motivation personal.

The journey of the bodhisattva warrior starts with the basic attitude of enlarging our motivation to include the welfare of others. This is a simple response to this dark age. Let's begin right now by engaging love and compassion however we can—not tomorrow, but today.

Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

education is about relationship, about being worthy of the hope of our children. Taking seriously the stewardship of their trust as we guide them should be an underlying motivation of our hearts as we commit to influencing them. We are passing on a life, not just information.

Imagination is the first step to creation, the instigating spark that drives the actions of a hero.

When individuals are unconditionally accepted and set free to live into their own abilities, skills, and passions, they are more likely to be motivated to contribute from their own natural resources.