Quotes about motivation
motivation inspiration using-your-talents
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. Maxwell Maltz
motivational children self-esteem
The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
motivation father years
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice. Max Walker
motivation decision labels
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
motivation vanity fairs
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. Matthew McConaughey
motivation people done
The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done. Mary Frances Berry
motivation moving inspiration
Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me. Martin Seligman
motivational inspiring education
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. John Updike
motivational comfort doe
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability. John Perry
motivational essence survival
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value. Peter Drucker
motivational forgiveness memories
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around. Penn Jillette
motivation done half
For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done. Nas
motivational worry people
You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time. John Wooden
motivational player practice
What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'
motivational running determination
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
motivational mistake sitting
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
motivational preparation trying
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
motivational yesterday waiting
Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.
motivational inspiration design
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design? Michael Hansmeyer
motivation inspiration thinking
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
motivational thinking track
They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down. Michael Johnson
motivational character thinking
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world. Michael Josephson
motivational determination past
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
motivational basketball night
Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. Michael Jordan
motivational change encouraging
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
motivational judging political
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln
motivation civil-war charity
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
motivational time men
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
motivational honesty important
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
motivational family success
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. Anne Sullivan
motivational kindness may
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up. Jesse Jackson
motivational friendship running
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Jesse Owens
motivational dream black-history
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.