Motivation Quotes

Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.

~ Linda Spangle

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

~ James P. Krehbiel

[Team player vs team builder]Players focus on the wins and the loses.Builders focus on the team and future of the vision.Let's move our members from team player to team builder.

~ Janna Cachola

At times what you expect and what happens don’t match. The faster you accept and adapt to what happened & work towards creating what you believed, that what you expected gets created in a whole new way..!

~ Sujit Lalwani

WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine ExcellentRunners!

~ Sujit Lalwani

Action is traction.

~ Rob Liano

Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the wind, hope in the sun smiling from behind clouds, strength in every step forward. You can do it!

~ Toni Sorenson

Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.

~ Toni Sorenson

Let your past propel you forward, not hold you back.

~ Toni Sorenson

Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.

~ Toni Sorenson

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Control leads to compliance, autonomy leads to engagement.

~ Daniel H. Pink

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

~ Miriam Peskowitz

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

~ C. Terry Warner

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.

~ Ronnie Coleman

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.

~ Karl Marlantes

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!

~ Wolfgang Reiber

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

~ David Gemmell

As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the kingdom of God.

~ A.w. Tozer

Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, I've had enough of this.

~ Arnold Bennett

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a beleaguered visitor to Morocco hiring a tour guide: pay off one so that the seventy-five others will stop trying to trade you their camels for your wife. Which one you pay off is largely irrelevant.

~ Michael Lewis

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

~ Peter Richmond

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

~ Kelly Bryson

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

~ Elizabeth F. Barkley

Many outsiders clarified that they believe Christians have a right (even an obligation) to pursue political involvement, but they disagree with our methods and our attitudes. They say we seem to be pursuing an agenda that benefits only ourselves; that we expect too much out of politics; they question whether we are motivated by our economic status rather than faith perspectives when we support conservative politics; they claim we act and say things in an unchristian manner; they wonder whether Jesus would use political power as we do; and they are concerned that we overpowered the voices of other groups.

~ David Kinnaman

There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book takes the reader into a new world of experience; it is an experiment. A bad book, unless the writing is inept, reinforces the intransigent attitude of the reader not to experiment with a new world. Since there are criminals and psychopaths and sociopaths in all my novels they are in a way psychological thrillers.

~ John Franklin Bardin

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

~ Samael Aun Weor

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

~ Bob Nelson

Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.

~ Jefferson Smith

Seeking Your face and not only Your hand, I find You embracing me just as I am.

~ Big Daddy Weave

A highly paid, highly motivated employee who is not allowed to work with his full potential is like a Ferrari which is not allowed out of the garage.

~ Charbel Tadros

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Go ahead, let them judge you.

~ Unknown

Don't try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start.

~ Jeff Olson

When it all comes together, it is oddly beautiful and it makes sense.

~ Greg Dutilly

When we’re all living in the space of the inner child, loving, honoring, respecting, and embracing its desires, we are at peace.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a great Hindu story about a lady who wanted to meet the god Krishna. So she went into the forest, closed her eyes, and prayed and meditated on making the god appear and lo and behold, Krishna tapped the lady on the shoulder, she, without opening her eyes, told him to get lost because she was busy meditating on a very important goal. When we get so wrapped up in our heads, we miss out on what's available to us right now in the moment.

~ Jen Sincero

The light overcome the darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it.

~ Clayton M. Christensen