Motivation Quotes

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal .

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that’s never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It’s not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It’s about our beliefs and expectations. It’s about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.