Quotes on Motivation

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

As the world is getting smaller, it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves, that we meet each other, we get to know each other, we are able to figure out a way to cross borders, to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams, what makes them laugh and cry.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.

All emanates from Source! ...You're not this body and its accomplishments. You are the observer. Notice it all; and be grateful for the abilities you've been given, the motivation to achieve, and the stuff you've accumulated. But give all the credit to the power of intention, which brought you into existence.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Most of us commit to action only if we feel a certain level of motivation. And we feel motivation only when we feel enough emotional inspiration.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?