Quotes About Motivation

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

You made them hate me. Said Ender So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be. -Graff

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.

You can deny any sacrifice by claiming that it made the sufferer feel so good to do it that it really wasn't a sacrifice at all, but just another selfish act.

You underestimate yourself.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.

All education is self-education," said Noxon. "And all self-education builds on the foundation provided by your teachers.

You can deny any sacrifice by claiming that it made the sufferer feel so good to do it that it really wasn't a sacrifice at all, but just another selfish act." Suddenly Planter jumped

She did not understand all of human nature, but Ender had taught her this: to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.

She did not understand all of human nature, but Ender had taught her this: to stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it. 6 VARELSE

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

Para impedir que un ser humano haga algo, hay que encontrar un medio para conseguir que deje de querer hacerlo.

H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.

We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

He was the most dangerous of men, because, in his actions, he saw only good. He saw himself as a hero.