Quotes About Motivation

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

Accurate information is a key part of motivation.

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful, rich and famous, but if those are our goals, we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.

What you praise you increase.

What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.