Quotes about motivation
motivational beautiful struggle
I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people. Tom Ford
motivational night thinking
I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise. Steve Wozniak
motivational running art
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. Steve Prefontaine
motivational beautiful running
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
motivational success softball
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
motivation drinking home
You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on the Internet. There's motivation to sit at home. You don't have to get dressed up, or be social and for those old enough you don't risk DUI charges by drinking at home at the computer. Steve Mahoney
motivation inspiration adversity
We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling. Steve Gleason
motivation action
It is action that creates motivation. Steve Backley
motivation fuel action
The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.
motivational team humble
How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it. Stephen Covey
motivational humble mean
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
motivational weakness irrelevant
It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
motivational
We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.
motivational action love-someone
You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
motivational giving feedback
Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
motivational simple inspire
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
motivational keys absence
The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.
motivational mean self
The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.
motivational priorities top-priorities
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
motivational flower water
If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
motivational sacrifice thinking
Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"
motivational reality damage-control
In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.
motivational people challenges
I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.
motivational commitment discipline
I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
motivational wisdom knowledge
It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
motivational issues choices
We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
motivational struggle people
Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they will do is react and rebel and struggle for their identity.
motivation keys motive
The key to motivation is motive.
motivational children believe
Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
motivational change choices
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
motivational character patterns
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
motivational fitness taste
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
motivational thinking people
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.