Quotes About Motivation

and there's no point in a life lived aimlessly.

to see passion in every crime, and use that passion to excuse it.

no estoy cansado. Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

today our physicians make use of radium: but no matter the method adopted, every one of them depends to a large extent for its efficacy upon the power it has of arousing the will-to-health in the patient.

One funny image can sometimes save an otherwise mediocre strip. At least that's what I tell myself so I don't feel quite as crappy when I've just wasted four hours drawing and coloring a Sunday strip.

The successful salesperson makes a good leader because he or she inspires trust.

The pirates understood what drove men

Says here there's a reward," Mr. Hooks said. Tallie blinked, then remembered Keith had added that tidbit for incentive. She opened her purse and scrutinized the contents of her slim wallet--twelve dollars and a book of stamps. She handed over the ten and the stamps, then tossed in a free drink coupon from Starbucks. "Thanks." Then she turned and fled.

People knit for their own reasons, but some of the most intense knitters I know are the ones who used it to help them quit smoking. It's a perfect plan, really; knitting keeps your hands busy, and it is relaxing and repetitive enough to hold off most of the urges to smoke. You get to spend your cigarette money on yarn, a powerful motivator, and two weeks after you quit you have four sweaters, three hats, and several really big afghans. Knitting can be a useful tool for self-improvement.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.

In Freud's account, the male superego is established under the threat of castration anxiety, which forces the boy to abandon his oedipal ambitions, but little girls experience themselves as already castrated, and thus have less motivation to keep infantile instinctual impulses in check; consequently they have less energy available for the sublimation that fuels higher-level organization and

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Preaching is truth set on fire.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.