Quotes About Motivation

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

Desire is the very essence of man

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.

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

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

A man full of hope will be full of action.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.