Quotes about Motivation

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

The difference is one of motivation: legalism is self-centered; discipline is God-centered. The legalistic heart says, "I will do this thing to gain merit with God." The disciplined heart says, "I will do this thing because I love God and want to please Him.

The Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772—1810) taught, 'If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow?' To which Telushkin has added: 'And if no one feels comfortable criticizing you, the likelihood that you will be better tomorrow is most probably nonexistent.

When people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.

A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.