Quotes About Motivation

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.

The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them.

He was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed.

Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew.

People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently—and generally better—than people who serve other masters." "So it is like believing in God." "Maybe yes. But without the theology, the scripture, the pigheaded certainty.

Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places?

Ohne Vergütungen, die weit über das eigentlich Angemessene hinausgehen, wäre der Beruf des Politikers viel zu unerfreulich.

flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. —John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Step

To Randy and the others, the business plan functions as Torah, master calendar, motivational text, philosophical treatise. It is a dynamic, living document.

with the perky vigor of a man who had sat through one too many free webinars about the importance of networking.

You're assuming," Luisa said, "that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward." Doob pulled his tablet closer and started trying to find Tav's blog. "To what extent do you imagine she really is reporting facts about the AC? As opposed to creating the reality she describes?" Doob asked. "What's the difference?" Luisa asked.

The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong:

It was clear how he had become the leader of a sort of gang back home: not by asserting his leadership but by being so relentless in his production, evaluation, and exploitation of ideas that his friends had been left with no choice but to form up in his wake.