Quotes About Motivation

Let's assume that people respond to stress." "Is that true?" "Well, not just negative stress, but also positive stress like interest, or ambition. If they're under too little stress, they don't care, so it's very hard to motivate them to do something. But if they're under too much stress, they panic. They freeze, or they get angry and do completely irrational things.

How is your writing going, Michael?" "Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.

You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don't have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you're still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself.

men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.

Responsibility Training is rigged from the ground up so that the students win.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

ìIdleness is the parent of all psychologyî

To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.

If we have our own 'why' of life, we can bear almost any 'how.'

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

great deal of self-doubt is the mark of someone incapable of achieving high goals regardless of physical ability. Working with a sports psychologist can help

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Dream Big. Or Go Back To Sleep and Try Again.

Fxck what they think..... Get the money.