Quotes about Motivation

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Though the intellect remains unimpaired and though perception is enormously improved, the will suffers a profound change for the worse. The mescalin taker sees no reason for doing aanything in particular and finds most of the causes for which, at ordinary times, he was prepared to act and suffer, profoundly uninteresting. He can't be bothered with them, for the good reason that he has better things to think about.

Discipline without direction is drudgery.

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."