Quotes About Motivation

It's not respect but fear that motivates a man; that's how empires are built and revolutions begin. It is the secret of great men.

No es el respeto, sino el miedo lo que motiva a un hombre; así se construyen imperios y se ponen en marcha revoluciones. Ése es el secreto de los grandes hombres. Cuando un hombre tiene miedo de que lo aplastes, de que lo destruyas por completo, su respeto siempre vendrá detrás. El temor más elemental siempre es embriagador, abrumador, liberador. Siempre es más intenso que el respeto

Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.

Little things that are meaningless from a practical point of view may have great emotional meaning through their symbolism. Images and colors are often great motivating forces.

Las empresas existen sólo porque la gente quiere que existan.

He needs to know why he's doing what he's doing.

Work is done for work's sake alone, forsaking any higher purpose

A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.

Ä°nsan?n iÅŸini severek ve isteyerek yapmas?n?n bir önemi yoktu. Aksine, önemli olan ÅŸey, ne kadar k?sa sürede ne kadar çok iÅŸin yap?ld???yd?.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

A growing body of work in social psychology offers a possible explanation for this commercialization effect. These studies highlight the difference between intrinsic motivations (such as moral conviction or interest in the task at hand) and external ones (such as money or other tangible rewards). When people are engaged in an activity they consider intrinsically worthwhile, offering them money may weaken their motivation by depreciating or crowding out their intrinsic interest or commitment.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

If nobody will help you, do it alone! There is no 'i' in team, but there is '1' in WIN!

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

some people wish it would happen, some pepole want it to happen, others make it happen

Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen!

Winning has a price. And leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn't want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn't want to be challenged. And I earned that right because [other] teammates came after me. They didn't endure all the things that I endured.

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again. He would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

The best way to manage people, he thought, was to convince them that you were good for their careers. He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.

It was hard to know which of Billy's qualities was most important to his team's success: his energy, his resourcefulness, his intelligence, or his ability to scare the living shit out of even very large professional baseball players.

All good inventions come from something personal," she said. "People create things because it's personal.