Quotes About Motivation

The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.

a raging George Steinbrenner offered this morale-booster: "You will never be able to pitch in this league.

light that guides one person will guide a hundred. Be that light.

I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

You act, and you know why you act, but you don't know why you know that you know what you do.

EÄŸer doÄŸru anl?yorsam, bir ÅŸey yap?yorsunuz ve niçin yapt???n?z? biliyorsunuz, ama ne yapt???n?z?, niçin bildiÄŸinizi bilmiyorsunuz.

One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

In the beginning he had assumed that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts; but now that he had looked into their hearts, he rejected the explanation.

I have had opportunity to observe the effects of inherited wealth, and for the average young person it is a sentence to futility and boredom. It cuts the mainspring of activity; the person no longer has to do anything, and so he doesn't, and if he tries, he fails nine times out of ten. You at this moment are providing the strongest incentive to labor that I have ever had in my life.

On vaikeaa saada ihminen ymmärtämään jotain, kun hänen palkkana riippuu siitä, ettei hän ymmärrä.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

What shall we say to the wicked man to make him be good, if we cannot reward him with a heaven and frighten him with a hell? Well, my first answer is that we have been trying this process for a couple of thousand years, and the results seem to indicate that we might better seek out some other method of inducing men to behave themselves.

It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...

It's more about developing a sense of how he looks at the world. Motivation is highly individualistic. But what we all have in common is that we construct our own identities based on what we've learned of the world.

I reckon most people that chase money only do it because they don't really know what it is they do want.

Basically, it doesn't take all that much physical effort to shape up your mind.

You should motivate yourself, NOW!

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless. The most successful business leaders have a clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality. "Routine sets you free.

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless.

People join companies. They leave managers. Therefore, to keep your team happy and engaged, you need one thing above all else: great managers — not free lunches or yoga classes! As Gallup notes, "Managers account for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores." And great managers are not just born; they are continually advancing their skills and those of their employees.

las metas sin rutinas son deseos, las rutinas sin metas no tienen sentido.

Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.