Motivation Quotes

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even ...

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't ...

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in...

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards gett...

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the uni...

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and...

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Necessity who is the mother of our invention.

Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn an...

Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your...

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d ...

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members...

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematic...

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no e...

Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.

~In motivating people, YOU've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope,...

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a...

There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand ...

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through...

Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman ...

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are...

What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire.

Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be r...

However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

I believe in using words not fists.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest...

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light,...

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

People always ask me"Son what does it takeTo reach out and touch your dreams?"To them I always sayAr...

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re...

Goals that are not frightening are not worth having.

If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate ...

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

I felt like poisoning a monk.

Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.""With what?""My bar hands, ...

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, i...

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make i...

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people ...

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom...

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can sto...

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should ...

"People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them."

"The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when n...

"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."

"If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can."

"The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself...

"Your past does not equal your future."

"Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions."

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

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

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

"People who fail focus on what they have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will fee...

"Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life."

"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."

"It’s what you practice in private that you’ll be rewarded for in public."

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

"Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow."

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few actually do what they know. Knowing is no...

"You don’t have to have a reason to feel good. You’re alive! You can feel good for no reason at all!...

"If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s rea...

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."

"Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one."

"Success is buried on the other side of rejection."

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivat...

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorat...

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their...

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself wi...

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a f...

I want to do it because I want to do it.

It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.