The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

by Brendon Burchard

Fear was given to us as a motive to avoid physical harm and death. That is it. We are the ones who have perverted it into a tool for the ego’s protection.

we are more often fleeing from ourselves than from actual danger.

These are the meek who stood to inherit the earth but never rose to claim it;

there is always less to lose than to gain in making healthy decisions

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ANTOINE DE SAINT - EXUPÉRY

When we find ourselves hopeful but not motivated, we need to add a little more faith to the mix, to tell ourselves, “I expect that it will happen no matter what, because I have faith in myself to learn and grow and, day by day, make things happen.

They reply with equal frenzy and devotion to one and all, to both influencers and idiots, their addiction to meet others’ demands making no distinction, giving no priority.

all human experience is segmented into two fields: meaningful activities and nonmeaningful activities.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Sometimes this is absolutely true. Discerning where it is absolutely true and absolutely not (and therefore based on internally imposed limits) is the key.

Those who advance do so because they value action itself. They feel that positive forward momentum—progress—is a reflection of their character, and so they take pride and satisfaction in actions toward that end.

It does not mean they are ruined by failure or in the slow moments of life—it simply means they have a bias toward going and growing.

We have work to do, influence to gain, service to render, power to share, freedom to achieve for our loved ones.

Would that I had the freedom described here. But I'm taking steps to cultivate better mental states by restricting my inputs. It cannot be changed with the flip of a light switch, but by feeding my brain a better diet I can still change things.