Motivation Quotes - Page 91

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Be the change you want to see in your networks

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.