Quotes About Motivation

If someone is there to believe in you, to care about you and support you, amazing things can happen.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.

Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

His work has been his necessity and his desire.

One is that if agriculture is to remain productive, it must preserve the land, and the fertility and ecological health of the land; the land, that is, must be used well. A further requirement, therefore, is that if the land is to be used well, the people who use it must know it well, must be highly motivated to use it well, must know how to use it well, must have time to use it well, and must be able to afford to use it well.

we had better bear in mind also something that I am not the first or the smartest writer to notice: that for the making and sustenance of movements hatred is more effective than love.

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

More than weapons, we need a leader.

Human behavior, says Plato, flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To convince a man, you must appeal to his self-interest, his desires, his will.

The experience of the past leaves little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.

Passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead. Thought should not lack the heat of desire, nor desire the light of thought.