Motivation Quotes - Page 67

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

You may delay, but time will not.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

You are what you think about all day.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours