Quotes About Motivation

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

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

We shouldn't make decisions based on feelings alone but rather should make decisions based on creating a positive difference for the future. If it's a good, logical move, or even if it simply interests you, commit to starting and taking it one step at a time. Get started, because the passion you're looking for may be just a few steps away. Passion FOLLOWS commitment, not the other way around.

Let go of this: "You will one day find your true passion and life can really begin." Grab onto this: "You will CREATE a life that you are passionate about living with every decision you make every day.

Won't get done by looking at it!

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

He appears to hit the office when he feels inspired. Spending a few hours working heatedly before the creative impulse evaporates and he leaves the study.

Okay, he told himself, enough Memory Lane crap. Let's get back to

One of the things that has always amazed me is how many people will work harder at doing something criminal, something that will make some fast cash but have a high risk of ruining their lives, than they will at doing something that's perfectly legitimate and can keep them happy for the rest of their days.

There are people that who want to be someone and there are people that want to do something.

Without values, goals rarely get accomplished . . . Values are the key. When you understand them correctly, they will pull you toward to your dreams -- which is a lot wetter than having to push yourself!

It's hard to be depressed when you are excited about your future, and that's what dreams do: They make us believe that tomorrow is going to be better than today.

In fact, studies show that less than 1 percent of Americans write down specific goals for themselves each year. That's a shame, because writing down your goals is powerful.

Specificity transforms a vague dream into a concrete, achievable goals. If you can practically see, hear, feel, and smell a goal, the chances are excellent that you'll not only know what's required to make t real, you'll actually do what's required to make it real.

Remember, inspiration unused is merely entertainment. To get new results, you need to take new actions.

Artists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

Much of our time is spent just maintaining our emotional lives and physical conditions. To move ahead, we often have to clear a trail as we go. Progress and development do not occur without change in our motivations and actions.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

We have knowledge. We have to do something." His first punched the hair. "Who is with me!" Noone of the moved so much as a muscle.

Christ in me" means Christ bearing me along from within, Christ the motive power that carries me on, Christ giving my whole life a wonderful poise and lift, and turning every burden into wings . . . not as something you have to bear but as something by which you are borne.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Liderazgo: El arte de influir sobre la gente para que trabaje con ençtusiasmo en la consecución de objetivos en pro del bien común.

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