Quotes About Motivation

Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For instance, you study every day and learn something in proportion to your studies. If you do not feel that you are going anywhere, your emotions will cause you to become demoralized.

Non-narrative action: Does not depend on a narrative for the action to be right—the narrative is just there to motivate, entertain, or prompt action. See flâneur.

There is no problem if people have a conflict of interest if it is congruous with downside risk for themselves.

as self-interest can be the driver of growth.

you need to know whether you do not like the pursuit of money and wealth because you genuinely do not like it, or because you are rationalizing your inability to be successful at it with the argument that wealth is not a good thing because it is bad for one's digestive system or disturbing for one's sleep or other such arguments.

We saw that bureaucrats (whether in government or large corporations) live in a system of rewards based on narratives

Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses.

the notion of incentives as limited to financial gain cannot otherwise explain the very existence of an economics academia that promotes the idea of self-interest.

We are most motivated to help those who need us the least.

You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely to do my best. The assignment is too vague.

Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear . . . We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy.

Instinct" is a concept intended to bridge the gap between needs and goals, bypassing man's cognitive (i.e., reasoning and learning) faculty.

A mind that distrusts itself cannot inspire the best in the minds of others. Neither can leaders inspire the best in others if their primary need, arising from their insecurities, is to prove themselves right and others wrong.

What determines the level of self-esteem is what the individual does, within the context of his or her knowledge and values.

If our liabilities pose the problem of inadequacy, our assets pose the challenge of responsibility

Brilliant people with low self-esteem act against their interests every day.

We cannot understand a person's behavior without understanding the self-concept behind it.

If a self-concept cannot accommodate a given level of success, and if the self-concept does not change, it is predictable that the person will find ways to self-sabotage.

The level of our self-esteem influences how we act, and how we act influences the level of our self-esteem.

The psychologist, seeking to understand the principles of human behavior, observes (a) that man, as a biological entity, possesses various needs, and (b) that man characteristically acts to achieve various ends or goals.

This love is the beginning of virtue. It is the launching pad for our highest and noblest aspirations. It is the motive power that drives the six pillars. It is the seventh pillar of self-esteem.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.