Quotes about Motivation
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
— Anne Frank
teachers are the greatest freaks on earth,....
— Anne Frank
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
— Anne Lamott
One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do-- you can either type or kill yourself.
— Anne Lamott
Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.
— Seth Godin
The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
— Seth Godin
The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.
— Seth Godin
If you took organic chemistry in college, you've experienced the Dip. Academia doesn't want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen. Organic chemistry is the killer class, the screen that separates the doctors from the psychologists. If you can't handle organic chemistry, well, then, you can't go to med school.
— Seth Godin
Are you one of those people? One of the people with too many good ideas? The folks who have notebooks filled with notions, or daydreams filled with the future? You've certainly met these people. They're too busy taking notes to get anything done, too busy inventing to actually instigate. To stop this process, one needs to do only two things: Start. And then . . . Ship. Can't
— Seth Godin
The Cul-de-Sac and the Cliff Are the Curves That Lead to Failure If you find yourself facing either of these two curves, you need to quit. Not soon, but right now. The biggest obstacle to success in life, as far as I can tell, is our inability to quit these curves soon enough.
— Seth Godin
In a story so good that it should be apocryphal, Zappos offers graduates of their two-week paid training school $2,000 if they will quit their new jobs.
— Seth Godin
Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason.
— Seth Godin