Find Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Quotes to Lift Your Spirit - page 170

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don\'t need motivation.
Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.
 Thomas Leonard
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
 Patricia K. Kuhl
In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.
 Dan Ariely
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.
Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
 Tennessee Williams
Attitude determines how well you do it.
 Lou Holtz
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.
 Marshall B. Rosenberg
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
 Thornton Wilder
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.
 Johnny Weissmuller
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Nothing will work unless you do.
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
 Hasdai ibn Shaprut
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
 Itay Talgam
It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.
 Johnny Miller
My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.
My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.
 Jennifer Pharr Davis
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
 Eliza Dushku