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• You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.

  Adlin Sinclair

  Topics in Spirituality, Success

  Tags in Inspiration, Motivation

• To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

  Barbara Walters

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motivation

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motivation

• There are only two stimulants to one’s best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

  John Moulder Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motivation

• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  Jim Rohn

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Motivation

• The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true — action precedes motivation. You have to ”prime the pump” and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

  Robert J. McKain

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Best, Getting, Enough, Motivation

• Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Ability, Attitude

  Tags in Motivation

• ‘Impossible’ is not a scientific term.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossibility, School, Motivation

• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

  Victor Cherbuliez

  Topics in Attitude, Luck

  Tags in Optimism, Motivation

• Society’s limit on achievement is the glass ceiling that gives a resting point for those who fail to have their achievements defined by others.

  Calum Ross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motivation

• An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

  Charles F. Kettering

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Motivation

• While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn’t only terrorism we are fighting. It’s the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A new ideology of hatred and intolerance has arisen to challenge America and liberal democracy

  John Kerry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intolerance, Terrorism, Motivation

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  Abraham Maslow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accepting, Human, Motivation

• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perseverance, Thinking, Motivation

• I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

  Bob Hope

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Course, Comedian, Myself, Motivation

• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  Brian Tracy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comfort, Motivation

• If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Towards, Motivation

• My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

  Herman Cain

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stature, Running, Being, Motivation

• The personality problem is so tough when you’re not able to pay people. It’s bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

  John Badham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personality, Motivation

• One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

  Russell Banks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Complex, Braid, Avoid, View, Motivation