Quotes About Motivation

Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

Now," I said, "why don't you come with me and see what I do? Because obviously you don't trust me. And I want you to trust me, Leon," I lied. "It's important to me that you trust me." I didn't care if Leon trusted me. But I did want him to keep paying me.

I could hear her [Vic's Italian mother] saying, "Yes, Vic, you are pretty -- but pretty is no good. Any girl can be pretty -- but to take care of yourself you must have brains. And you must have a job, a profession. You must work.

Now I've heard everyhing, I thought. Hired to find a person so her boyfriend would go to business school.

Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don't let it stop you.

If you think only positive thoughts, it will lead to a positive life.

I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Ambition is your special ware And you have dared to call it passion.

Develop more productivity with an increase in leadership skills.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you.

This is what a spark can do.»

I guess I have to thank Shupe and all that marching for something, because my butt is as springy as a bag of Gummi Bears.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Even though you really don't feel like you're motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.