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Quotes About Motivation

Ahora que tenían algo que hacer, trabajaron con entusiasmo.
~ William Golding
The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.
~ William Golding
I write out of revenge
~ William Goldman
The power of an individual lies in the ability to accomplish goals — either alone or with the help of others.
~ William Horton
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
~ William James
Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain
~ William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure
~ William James
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
~ William James
In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing.
~ William James
Nguyên t?c sâu s?c nh?t trong b?n tính con ng??i Ä'ó là sá»± thèm khát ???c tán th??ng.
~ William James
But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.
~ William L. Shirer
Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.
~ China Mieville
He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.
~ China Mieville
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
~ Chinese proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
~ Chinese proverb
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
~ Chinese proverb
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
This is not a feel-good book. (But I am confident you will feel good after reading it.) It is not a motivational book. (But I promise you will be motivated once you are done.)
~ Chin-Ning Chu
I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.
~ Chinua Achebe
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
~ Chinua Achebe
one way to motivate a switch is to shrink the change, which makes people feel "big" relative to the challenge.
~ Chip Heath
The story's power, then, is twofold: It provides simulation (knowledge about how to act) and inspiration (motivation to act).
~ Chip Heath
One way to motivate action, then, is to make people feel as though they're already closer to the finish line than they might have thought.
~ Chip Heath
So if you reach the Riders of your team but not the Elephants, team members will have understanding without motivation. If you reach their Elephants but not their Riders, they'll have passion without direction. In
~ Chip Heath