Quotes About Motivation

no, this wasn't about money. Not everything is about money

My goal is to be an engine of excitement in people's lives.

My purpose is to give people glorious stories to tell.

perchè appena uno trova una buona ragione per farle, le cose perdono il loro fascino.

If you're not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead.

Or maybe, just maybe, he got it into his head that he was doing something good. Something righteous. Some of the worst things are done under righteous pretense.

The Muse is not real. Relying on the Muse is like leaning on a crutch made of playing cards.

The dark side is honest. The dark side is direct. It is the knife in the front rather than one stuck in your back. The dark side is self-interested, yes, but it is about extending that interest outward. To yourself, but then beyond yourself.

Shut up and write.

You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words. Or pick up one of the tools used by our distant ancestors -- it is a tube filled with the liquid black souls of all the animals we've made extinct -- and use this pen as a scribe would to etch scribbly heretical word-shapes onto dead tree pulp.

Just remember: there is no Muse, and if there is a Muse, you own it – it doesn't own you.)

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

An inchoate mass of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise, he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

My motivation, even in anticipated shame, lay always in others. You can take the woman out of the upstairs, but you can't take the upstairs out of her.

Maybe, instead, I'll set the world on fire. I just might.

An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

Something in her drove him to be his very best self, both as a Dom and as a man.

Now relax, think positively and begin --- the smile of success awaits you.

Laziness breeds humors of the blood

To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.

None of that data, however, actually tells you why customers make the choices that they do.

But if anyone believes that he is working harder but is being paid less than another person, it would be like transplanting cancer into this company.

These are what Herzberg's research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it. Realizing this frees us to focus on the things that really matter.