Quotes About Motivation

With this lesson in mind, Mullainathan and Shafir insist that certain characteristics that we attribute to individual personality (lack of motivation, inability to focus) may actually be a problem of limited bandwidth. The problem is scarcity, not the person.

Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don't see themselves as competitive.

In searching for the causes of war, don't overlook boredom.

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

Prizes and medals. Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum.

He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Q. Why don't they work harder? A. They just don't like hard work. The Germans have a reputation for hard work, so they like to keep it up. The British find it boring.

If you want people to work hard and succeed, there are times when you've got to let them find their own way. Overmanaging is a constant danger.

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap ~ Tiffani S. Hall, American Poet & Writer

There are kinds of people and kinds of work. There are people who file and people who pile. There are doers and dreamers.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

People work together when it suits them. They're loyal when it suits them. They love each other when it suits them. And they kill each other when it suits them.

It's not what we do, so much as why we do it.