Quotes About Motivation

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies, I tell my daughters—and at least that was true for me at Harvard.

Look. You can't plan out your life. What you have to do is first discover your passion—what you really care about.

Barack Obama

A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

You gave them hope." "They need more than hope," I said.

I recognized that in running for Congress I'd been driven not by some selfless dream of changing the world, but rather by the need to justify the choices I had already made, or to satisfy my ego, or to quell my envy of those who had achieved what I had not.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Donot wait for good things to happen to you.If you out and make some good things happen,you will fill the world with hope,you will fill yourself with hope.

It was the sort of change that's important not because it alters your concrete circumstances in some way (wealth, security, fame) but because it hints at what might be possible and therefore spurs you on, beyond the immediate exhilaration, beyond any subsequent disappointments, to retrieve that thing that you once, ever so briefly, held in your hand.

Confidence. The secret to a man's success.

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies

You seem like a nice enough guy. Why do you want

Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself.

That's why people become involved in organizing—because they think they'll get something out of it.

Hard-headed corporate culture is becoming interested in how to get more work out of fewer workers. They're realizing that if their workers are happy, they will work harder and more productively. So they're leading the charge."49

mundo del pensamiento positivo, los demás no están ahí para que los cuidemos, ni para darnos baños de realidad que no les hemos pedido. Solo tienen sentido si nos animan, nos aplauden y nos reafirman. Y aunque esto suena de lo más despiadado, hay mucha gente normal que adopta esta filosofía a modo de credo

Mires a donde mires, te encuentras con la jerga empresarial: "incentivos", "valor añadido", "pasos adelante"; las mismas cadenas de mando, las mismas oficinas con iguales mesas y cubículos, la misma funcionalidad neutral, sin concesión alguna a la estética; la misma fe en la motivación y en el espíritu de equipo prefabricado.

los empresarios confiaban en que el pensamiento positivo aplacara a las víctimas de las reestructuraciones y fomentara en los supervivientes las ganas de hacer un esfuerzo aún más heroico.

Quienes están haciendo las reestructuraciones despiden a una persona de cada tres y luego ponen un póster inspiracional en el pasillo para tapar la herida psicológica.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.

What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.

You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.