Best motivation & feelings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Literature & Existentialism

“Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.”

Ifs Needs Enough Shows Feelings Young Motivation Poverty Talent Hunger Recognition Persistence Arrogance Insatiable Insatiable Hunger

Author:Leon Uris

“After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.”

Way Firsts Two Feelings Able Film Motivation Brain Thirds Instinct Commit Conclusion Crap Brainwashed

Book:Clint Eastwood: interviews

Source: Clint Eastwood: interviews

“When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.”

Giving Feels Feelings Motivation Energy Force Sides Loneliness Angry Surrender Damn Uncomfortable Allowing Reach Out Numbing Uncomfortable Feeling

Author:Ashley Judd

“Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.”

People Thinking Self Feelings Motivation Self Esteem Identity Understood Esteem Fragile Being Loved Fragile Things

Author:Nate Parker

“The world may be as evangelized as it will ever get if we attempt to complete the remaining task with a motivation built around the fleeting feelings of compassion. Mercy can strike a match, but we need emissaries from many lands who are ablaze with the inexhaustible fuel of jealousy for God's glory.”

Ifs World Needs May Feelings Motivation Compassion Land Glory Built Tasks Mercy Strikes Fuel Fleeting

Author:Steven C. Hawthorne

“You know when I started playing music as a young man I felt the need to be noticed and to prove myself. My motivation is much different now but what's still left is the love of music and the joy of entertaining people- the feeling that I make a difference, giving something back rather than just taking. Every year or two I come out with new music, or new arrangements of old music which keeps my show fresh.”

“In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.”

Ends Country Feelings Today Motivation Suffering Culture Blood Security Tomorrow Soldier Iraq Revenge Locals Mates Killers Infant Insurgent Grooming Insurgency Feuds

Author:Yaroslav Trofimov

“Inspiration comes from so many things that it's hard to define what that is or when it happens. It's always been a strong feeling that comes over me in a given moment, and it feels like hope, desire, strength, magic, excitement. A supreme motivation to create or do something special. To win for love.”

Feels Hard Moments Feelings Inspiration Happens Desire Motivation Winning Strong Given Magic Special Supreme Excitement Something Special Strong Feeling

Author:Adam Rodriguez

“I also like to feel good when I'm working out. If I put schlubby clothes on, I'm like, 'Blah.' I don't really want to work out. But if I'm feeling cute and I'm looking good - that's my motivation.”

Ifs Want Feels Feelings Motivation Clothes Work Out Feel Good Cute Looking Good Blah

Author:Julianne Hough

“I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.”

People Thinking Feelings Motivation Choices Creativity Couple Conscious Excited Boring Therapy Complacent Stagnant

Author:Justin Long

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

Ifs Feelings Motivation Emotion Emotional Integrity Sincere Involuntary

Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.”

Trying Moments Feelings Motivation Difficult Struggle Needed Harder Guilty Feeling Guilty

Author:William P. Young

“We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.”

People Way Humans Sometimes Feelings Moving Motivation Certain Energy Hurt Human Beings Ability Forget Impossible Forgiving Complicated Vulnerable Permanent Annoying Layers

Book:The Story of Us

Source: The Story of Us

“Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.”

Source: John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do

“A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.”

Self Feelings Motivation Growth Wonderful Self Esteem Source Self Confidence Esteem Continuous Growth

Author:Brian Tracy

“Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic.”

People Feels Mean Feelings Running Success Motivation Grows Sports Air Blood Minutes Understood Skins Blow Fantastic Muscles Motivational Sports Bodybuilding Pumps

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.”

Want Feelings Inspiration Seems Care Motivation Technology Listening Machines End Times Spend Time Sherry

Book:Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

Source: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

“As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every moment of my life, including my emotions, attitudes, and motivations. The depth of emotion I experienced during this life review was astonishing. Not only could I feel the way both I and the other person had felt when an incident took place, I could also feel the feelings of the next person they reacted to. I was in a chain reaction of emotion, one that showed how deeply we affect one another.”

“Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.”

People Ifs Inspirational Feels Humans Self Feelings Motivation Human Beings Self Help Personality Evolution Members Connections Affection Identification Kinship Deep Feeling

Author:Abraham Maslow

“It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.”

Want Feels Wells Whole Moments Feelings Motivation Sports Doubt Behave Right Thing That Moment Softball Doing The Right Thing

Author:Sandy Koufax

“I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.”

Ifs World Years I Can Feelings Lasts Motivation Three Sports Months Training Harder Train Last Year Softball Days Off Training Harder

Author:Marion Jones

“Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by doing. The mental qualities you need are all linked like a chain. If you give exercise a try and see results, even if it's as simple as feeling good that you get out the door, you'll become motivated to repeat the exercise. Seeing results is inspiring.”

Source: On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People

“I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.”

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