Quotes About Motivation

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Retten will man eigentlich immer nur sich selbst. Was variiert, ist das Wovor.

Wenn er jetzt einen Herzanfall bekam, hatte Kron erreicht, was er wollte; also würde er keinen Herzanfall bekommen. Kron keinen Gefallen zu tun war ein guter Grund, am Leben zu bleiben.

I think it better for me to do A than B, but am led by anger, or some other emotion, to do B instead.

How can anger, or any other emotion or feeling, get someone to go against what they have deliberately resolved on doing? Until we have some systematic way of understanding this, we and the way we act are mysterious to ourselves.

Plato takes the phenomenon of psychological conflict, being torn between two options, to show that the person so torn is not really a unity; he is genuinely torn between the motivational pull of two or more distinct parts of the soul.

As parents and teachers know well, we teach children to be fair and honest not by teaching them what they should do and then trying to interest them in having a new motivation to do this. Rather, we try to educate and fowl motivations that are present already.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Julia London

I must protest." "To whom?" That seemed to flummox him. "I don't know," he finally said. "But a protest must be lodged nonetheless." "I don't think the dog meant to shoot him," Iris demurred. "You mean the author does not make the canine's motivations clear?" Iris assumed a scrupulously even expression. "Even she lacks such talent.

Não preciso de ser mesmo boa. Só preciso de retirar prazer do que faço. E de saber que tentei.

Kate, on the other hand, always stood with her shoulders straight and tall, couldn't sit still if her life depended upon it, and walked as if she were in a race—and why not? she always wondered. If one was going somewhere, what could possibly be the point in not getting there quickly?

and walked as if she were in a race-and why not? she always wondered. If one was going somewhere, what could possibly be the point in not getting there quickly?

You happen to life, Eloise

It was time to stop waiting, time to forget about fate and destiny It was time to act. To work. Hard. No one was going to hand him that second-to-last piece of the puzzle; he had to find it for himself.

As a young footballer I used to look up to a number of stars for inspiration and I understand what Bhaichung must have done for all young Indians aspiring to be footballer.

Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

I talk with every player individually and as a team.