Motivation Quotes - Page 61

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

High expectations are the key to everything.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.