“Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.”
Motivated feeling
Motivated Quotes — page 138 of 381
“What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.”
“Advertising is the life of trade.”
“All growth depends upon activity.”
“I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.”
“This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.”
“When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.”
“Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.”
“Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.”
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
“Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.”
“You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.”
“A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.”
“Karate is for life, not points.”
“According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production.”
“Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.”
“Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.”
“Whether it's college or WNBA, its basketball and the more you play the less you need to adjust.”
“I’m trying to do better than good enough.”