Quotes About Motivation

I realized my job was to paint a picture of 'New Cheese' that we would all want to pursue, so we could enjoy changing and succeeding, whether it was at work or in life.

Reading is very good.

If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it.

Der Pessimismus der Vernunft verpflichtet zum Optimismus des Willens!

Apathy robbed me of the strength even to despise myself.

El hombre que no cuenta con ningún objetivo en la vida, tiene que creárselo».

Literally, my job consisted of getting loaded, lounging, partying, working out, and using the trucks as motel rooms.

With self-discipline, the focus remains "self," so we are already off to a bad start. Trying, striving, working harder may get us through the week, but it won't take us through the decades.

Self-hatred, shame, and fear—though rampant in so many of our hidden worlds—are simply never going to be capable of creating or sustaining the growth we long for. Yet most women try to use shame as their inner motivator.

The thing that makes you say, I want to do something - that is the beginning of talent.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

That spark has to be kept alive.

Passivity is aggressively doing nothing and allowing life—or anything else—to do everything for you.

Our evolved natures should be treated with respect, but not with deference. We did not evolve to be happy: rather we evolved to be happy, sad, miserable, angry, anxious, and depressed, as the mood takes us. We evolved to love and to hate, and to care and be callous. Our emotions are the carrots and sticks that our genes use to persuade us to achieve their ends. But their ends need not be our ends. Goodness and happiness may be goals attainable only by hoodwinking our genes.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

We are who we are for a lot of reasons

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.

Por lo tanto, creo que somos lo que somos por muchas razones. Y tal vez nunca lo sabremos más que ellos. Pero incluso si no tenemos el poder de elegir de dónde venimos, todavía podemos elegir a dónde ir desde allí. Todavía podemos hacer cosas. Y podemos tratar de sentirnos bien acerca de ellas.

I've been trying hard to not be a loser.

nothing like a sore stomach for right reasons

I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks. I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.

When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion -- that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet -- therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.