Quotes about Motivation
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance
— Zig Ziglar
Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard.
— Robin Sharma
Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
— Marina Abramovic
I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.
— Oprah Winfrey
The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.
— Zig Ziglar
Laziness means more work in the long run.
— CS Lewis
Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.
— DL Moody
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
— Ernest Hemingway
If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.
— John Maxwell