Quotes About Motivation

Why can't our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

You can't teach hungry, my dad always reminded me. Either you are or you aren't.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Rejected pieces aren't failure; unwritten pieces are.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

Don't trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The 'why' of a thing—that's the foundation.

He couldn't control what he felt, but he could certainly control what he DID.

John Kotter in Leading Change says that a primary reason why change does not occur is that there is no sense of urgency.

Leadership is about instilling urgency.

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If you are teaching in a free-range setting, your learners are probably volunteers, and probably want to be in your classroom. The exercise therefore isn't how to motivate them, but how to not demotivate them. Unfortunately, you can do this by accident much more easily than you might think.

You are good at this. Most men are not. Or at least that's what they tell themselves until they believe it. And so they can use incompetence to get out of work.

You can't help people more than they want to help themselves.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. — Rumi (C. 1207 C.E.-1273 C.E.), Sufi poet

Envision someone else, someone better than you. Stronger. Smarter. Tougher. Then do what that guy would do.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.

She does not care what you think. She only cares what you think as far it helps her get what she wants from you

Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees.

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

If you have ever procrastinated and then found yourself energized to complete a task at the last minute, then you have used the beneficial aspect of the fight or flight response (not the procrastinating part, but the energizing part). You see, with all its negative long term effects, the fight or flight response still gives us energy, and if we know how to use that energy, then stress is potentially good, at least in the short term.

We can learn from the ad agencies and start forming our own personal and internal marketing campaigns in the first person singular with strong emotional components, thusly promoting the new ideas and habits that we want to incorporate.