Quotes About Motivation

The people who change the world around them rarely act from a sense of obligation. In fact, the people who act as leaders almost always act from a sense of incredible opportunity. They don't interact with the world around them because they have to. They do so because they want to.

Make each day your masterpiece. —JOSHUA WOODEN, father of John Wooden

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

It is a basic rule of life that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.

but instead of the can-do spirit we now have the can-do-with-some-government-funding spirit. And it's hard to get an inspirational heart-warmer out of that.

But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

No he de dejarme dominar por mis sentimientos, sino utilizarlos como fuente de energía.

Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition.

England's worst boss? I don't think so. England's worst boss is the boss who doesn't give a fuck, someone who's wasting his employees' time, challenging them to do nothing more ambitious than show up.

What I do I do because I like to do.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.

in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you." —ANTHONY ROBBINS

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

Leaders are those individuals who live by empowering beliefs and teach others to tap their full capabilities by shifting the beliefs that have been limiting them.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action." —Thomas Henry Huxley

The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what's not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.