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

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

My best advice is to stop using motivation as your only fuel. I know it feels great when you’re fired up, but it’s a short-term fuel source. That’s why the vast majority of people who start anything - diet, fitness, new projects - don’t finish. They run out of gas.

The only lasting fuel is routine. And you only get a routine by dragging yourself on the days when you have no motivation. Over and over.

I know that’s not the answer anyone wants. I wish I had a magic pill for you. But the only thing that works long term

Motivation is a set of emotions (painful and pleasurable) that act as the fuel for our actions.

Excitement (wants and desires) serves as passionate fuel, as does discontent (undesirable situations). Both allowed me to do what others wouldn’t. If you find yours, you will too.

Passion is the fuel.

Dreams are the fuel for your success. Without them there can never be any meaningful and lasting success in your life. Like a car engine without high-quality fuel you risk living a life that never quite gets started.

Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you are driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed

The memory gives you motivation and that little bit of fire inside when you need it.

A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel for your dreams.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

What motivates you is the ignition to your passion, the source for your enthusiasm, and the fuel of your persistence. This is so important that I made it the focus of another book, Living Your Best Year Ever: A Proven System for Achieving BIG GOALS (SUCCESS Books, 2011). You MUST know your why.

Organisms need, to use the metaphor of Marcus Aurelius, to turn obstacles into fuel — just as fire does.

"You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction — they're all just fuel."