Quotes About Motivation

When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.

Because of the prominent role that such vicious daydreams play as a preliminary to the act of serial murder, Robert Ressler and his colleagues reached the conclusion that fantasy is the mainspring of sexual homicide. "My research convinced me that the key was not the early trauma but the development of perverse thought patterns," Ressler has written. "These men were motivated to murder by their fantasies.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Humankind above all is lazy.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

The more directly individual rewards are tied to individual achievements, the greater incentive there is to increase one's individual effort. Joint Efforts

Think about it. Every action committed by any human being has one common objective – to bring about happiness for the individual himself. That is the one thing we can say for certain about human action – it is aimed at happiness. Whether or not it succeeds is something else again

There's no final resting place — short of death — where you can stop having to earn what you want.

One person devotes his life to helping the poor. Another one lies and steals. Still another person tries to create better products and services for which he hopes to be paid handsomely. One woman devotes herself to her husband and children. Another seeks a career as a singer. In every case, the basic motivation has been the same. Each person is doing what he believes will bring him happiness. What varies between them is the means each has chosen to gain his happiness.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

Financial rewards follow accomplishment; they don't precede it.

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.

not all students complete their assignments, often because they either cannot understand the assignment or they fail to see the reason for doing it. In both cases, the assignment may be poorly designed.

that goes well, we will follow with discussions of Raving Fans, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Gung Ho!; and The Road Less Traveled. All of these books can help us understand

It may behoove you to learn why you do what you do,

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too lazy to do, and like it.

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

An empty belly makes a stern taskmaster.~Victor Radcliff