Quotes about motivation
motivational people alchemist
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. Paulo Coelho
motivational heart want-something
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
motivational change encouraging
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
motivational fear heart
Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
motivation safe purpose
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
motivational soccer believe
You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out. Peter Shilton
motivational change gratitude
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again? Rachel Carson
motivational memories honesty
A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian
motivational movie artist
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages. Quentin Tarantino
motivational running athlete
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself. Picabo Street
motivation action
What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century. Pico Iyer
motivational self breathing
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.
motivational book feel-better
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.
motivational home mind
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.
motivational winning knowing
Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how to make use of our victories. Polybius
motivational self-esteem self-respect
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. Nathaniel Branden
motivation fall inspiration
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie
motivational success being-strong
People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo
motivational book reading
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change. Vernon Howard
motivational depression believe
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. Richard Bach
motivational dream reality
Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality. Robert Fritz
motivation business inspiration
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. Robert Foster Bennett
motivational forgiveness peace
Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away. Robert Fulghum
motivational jobs careers
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Robert Frost
motivational reality imagination
One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner
motivation desire limits
What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them. Richard Marcinko
motivational oneness ideas
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness. Rene Magritte
motivational art serendipity
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
motivation inspiration islamic
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours. Thomas P. Campbell
motivation psychology behaviour
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. Thomas Nagel
motivation serious affront
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine
motivation pain nicknames
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
motivation ideas justice
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.