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—Bern Williams, English moral philosopher

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly.

—Stephen R. Covey, educator, author, and businessman Make the most of what you have. I
operated, full time, on that precept. If you can’t have everything you think you deserve at that
moment, you would do well to surround yourself with symbols of your ideals. In that small office,
I surrounded myself with touches of the good life, the lovely and intricately tapestried life of my
imagination, an imagination that has always been, I’m proud to say, large enough to admit any
possibility.

—Estée Lauder, cofounder of Estée Lauder Companies

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

—Jack Canfield, author and entrepreneur

The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one
of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you’ve
just done something as well as you can do it.

—Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, coauthors of Thinking About Quality Creating
awareness about what motivates us gives us the greater knowledge to choose.

—Lisa A. Mininni, author