Quotes About Motivation

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek higher rank?' It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. 'Because there are problems that must be solved. Some cannot be solved by anyone except me.

running through its usual repertoire of encouraging noises.

The universe doesn't make a doggone thing happen. You make things happen for yourself.

Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. But there'd been no struggle. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf of our own interest. It allows us to see another power operating beneath the apparent predominance of self-interest. Of course, the commonsensical understanding of psychoanalysis is exactly the opposite of this, contending that psychoanalysis reduces everything to self-interest.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.

What we think we lack determines what we will become in life.

A man had to have something, he reasoned, to lose his mind in, at least once a day.

how could a man lead without vision?

As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

But human motivation is also a thing of the mind, and fear has never been the strongest emotion. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

You are never satisfied, Comrade Captain. I suppose it is men like you who force progress upon us all.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

But to act, most of us must first overcome the fears that have blocked our creativity in the past.

What matters most in the end, though, is this: your belief in your capacity to create positive change and the courage to take action.

Work doesn't have to feel like "Work with a capital W." You should be able to feel passion, purpose, and meaning in whatever you do. And that shift in perspective can open up a world of possibilities.

When you open your mind to the possibility that your capabilities are unlimited and unknown, you already have your running shoes on and are ready to race forward.

Creative confidence is like a muscle—it can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience.

Individuals who come to believe that they can effect change are more likely to accomplish what they set out to do. Bandura calls that conviction "self-efficacy." People with self-efficacy set their sights higher, try harder, persevere longer, and show more resilience in the face of failure.

I also knew that no one had told then to stay late--they were doing so of their own volition. This type of diligence and drive is not atypical in filmmaking--it's actually commonplace.