Quotes About Motivation

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal - something we are to become - some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Progress is not created by contented people.

But when everything is important, no one thing is truly important and efforts, rewards, and motivation suffer.17 Strategy is choice.

Note that there is a monumental difference between well-motivated humans working for God in their own strength, wisdom, and power versus God working through humans.

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Work is the only reason I leave home. I`m not a tourist. I don`t travel for pleasure. I don`t take vacations. I only leave the house when I have something to do.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

It isn't sufficient just to want-you've got to ask yourself what you're going to do to get the things you want.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Are we open-minded enough to assume that other species have a mental life? Are we creative enough to investigate it? Can we tease apart the roles of attention, motivation, and cognition? Those three are involved in everything animals do; hence poor performance can be explained by any one of them.

an insuppressible power drive,

food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5

Incentives were important in attracting a candidate to accept a particular job, but once on the job it hardly mattered at all. People who are driven to perform do so based on internal drive, not on external incentives. They want to do a good job.

Unser Wille will oft, weil er muss

Passion makes one persuasive.

If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.

I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.

Upton Sinclair dictum: it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.

Sin embargo, olvidas dos cosas: a fuerza de no hacer nada, se acaba por no hacer nada.