Quotes About Motivation

Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything

Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

If Not You, Who Else?

Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

Don't wish , Miss Tick had said. Do things.

Right! Right! You can get there! I can get there! You're a natural at counting to two! I'm a nat'ral at counting to two! If you can count to two, you can count to anything! If I can count to two, I can count to anything! And then the world is your mollusc! My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

People like that don't need a reason apart from because I can. They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?

The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.

Everyone had their levers. Often it was greed. Greed was a reliable old standby. Sometimes it was pride. That was Groat's lever. He desperately wanted promotion; you could see it in his eyes. Find the lever, and then it was plain sailing.

Agitation gives birth to creation.

The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.

Think about others worse off than you. At least you have a family, at least there is a roof over your head.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Why should I be content with what I have? What is wrong with reaching higher

Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

while behaviors drive results, behaviors themselves are informed and shaped by one's mindset.

the discovery of the cause of self-deception amounts to the revelation of a sort of unifying theory, an explanation that shows how the apparently disparate collection of symptoms we call 'people problems'—from problems in leadership to problems in motivation and everything in between—are all caused by the same thing.

The question for you as the leader is whether you are going to create an environment that is as enjoyable for your people as it is for you—a place that they are as excited about and devoted to as you are. The best leaders are those whom people want to follow.

So while it's true that behavior drives results, it's also true that mindset drives behavior.