Quotes About Motivation

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

The more their attention is directed to how well they're doing, the less engaged they tend to be with what they're doing.

Soy más fuerte de lo que parezco y trabajaré más duro que cualquier hombre. Además, le ofrezco mi asesoramiento psiquiátrico para ese desorden de personalidad tan problemático que tiene.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Life is too short to read depressing books

So he wanted a night of sex with the voluptuous Lady Grafton, it looked as though the old mainstay of suave flattery was on the agenda. Perhaps even a hitherto unpracticed sincerity might be of use. Which called into questions what exactly he was sincere about? Other than sex.

It was really true what they said: you don't look for something out of the ordinary unless you have reason to.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.

Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many

love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, whereas love motivates me to choose what is best for another person. Fear urges me to hang on, white knuckled, to what is mine, while love can actually lead me to let go.... when you hold something you love tightly to your chest for fear of losing it, you actually risk crushing it against you.

What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Throughout her life, Warren published little tip sheets—"Althea's Ways to Achieve Reading"—to encourage people to find time for books. She approved of fibbing if it gave you an additional opportunity to read.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

It (becoming disheartened) is insidious, buried, sticky . . . like a weird smell you can't quite pinpoint and eventually get used to. Becoming disheartened is actually one of three forms of laziness; the others are procrastination and being too busy.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Bonnie Raitt sang, "Let's give them something to talk about." She graciously allowed me to use her name when I told her about the Bonnie Raitt/Susan RoAne method. "If it helps people, that's fine with me.