Quotes About Motivation

I hope to see ya there, muscles!

Only fools and criminals didn't know why they did things.

God doesn't expect perfection—he wants good women who are motivated by deep love for him and who aren't afraid to make a few mistakes along the way.

What swells the costs in enterprises carried on in the interlocking centralized systems of society, whether commercial, official, or non-profit institutional, are all the factors of organization, procedure, and motivation that are not directly determined to the function and to the desire to perform it....

Always produce.

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

Building something by gradually refining a prototype is good for morale because it keeps you engaged.

One sign that determination matters more than talent: there are lots of talented people who never achieve anything, but not that many determined people who don't.

if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.

In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

This was naturally a great incentive, and possibly indeed the main cause of the second big change, industrialization. A great deal has been written about the causes of the Industrial Revolution. But surely a necessary, if not sufficient, condition was that people who made fortunes be able to enjoy them in peace.

With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.

Ronald Reagan, from his governorship to his presidency, kept a sign on his desk that read, "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people's work, would I ever work sixty hours?

Rock it man. I know you will

It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

I have witnessed both good and bad teachers. Too many times teachers, or "instructors," want to wear the title or the T-shirt, if you will, to satisfy their own egos.

Take the time to first figure out why you want to teach. Is it to bolster your ego to feel important and have people sit back in awe of your stunning presence? Or, does it look to be an easy road and steady paycheck? Either of these reasons does nothing for the teaching profession, let alone your ego.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Instead of accepting that, I am writing this. I realize that what motivates most other writers in the world is the desire to have control over their obituary.

Sometimes a whispered word, or a single image or glimpse of humanity, can be a powerful motivation for looking deeper into the world.

on my trip whenever I felt obstructed or low, I thought of this valiant woman, and moved on.