Quotes About Motivation

When I wrote my first book, I wrote all of it to a short list of very specific musical selections I sought out, music I found would bring out the right emotion or the right kind of expression in whatever I was writing at the moment.

When I completed my course work, it was my final opinion that you can never really get anyone to do anything they don't want to do unless you use force. I decided that in most of the world, "force" is called advertising

Your feelings about anything you do will affect how you do it. It doesn't have to be feelings of like or dislike, joy or fear; all of your feelings affect your actions.

your conscious intention to do something increases your brain's ability to wire in new ideas!

Instead of giving birth to dreams and accomplishment, Level 2 self-talk creates guilt, disappointment, and an acceptance of our own self-imagined inadequacies.

The first thing I look for when I'm going to spend any length of time in a living or writing space is what's on the walls. What's on the walls will become what's in your brain.

I happened upon what I thought to be the most exceptional self-improvement idea I had ever encountered. It was a simple idea, new at the time, which would require only that I spend twenty minutes each night writing my goals, reviewing my progress, and mentally visualizing reaching each goal I was setting.

Give life to your dreams, give strength to your visions, and give light to your path.

The human brain will do anything possible you tell it to do, if you tell it often enough and strongly enough!

Behind every purpose, there's a reason, behind every reason, there's a story, behind every story, there's a dance... ready to set in motion

So if anyone ever tells you: You're not good enough! You're not smart enough! Give up your foolish dream! If anyone ever tells you to quit, You got to make them wear a diaper on their mouth Because, man, they're just talking shit.

People with low self-esteem seldom try to take over the world." Suddenly,

I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy.

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Don't give up your dreams.

Every individual believes deep down that he or she has a greater capacity for success than they are currently experiencing.

If you don't like your appearance, then change it, but don't keep doing nothing and then complaining about it, because it's boring.' - Luis Martinez to Carly Conner

We've got to think positive thoughts.

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.