Quotes About Motivation

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names.

He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.

His father always treated him as if he were capable of great things. Which made him want to accomplish great things.

Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose.

Karena kami dipimpin oleh seorang pemimpih lemah yang bersemangat tikus, kami tidak berani berjuang. Tetapi bila kami dipimpin oleh seorang pemimpin kuat yang bersemangat banteng, kami akan bertempur.

YOU WILL SUCCEED AT YOUR GOALS TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU ADDRESS YOUR SABOTAGE FACTORS.

If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

What puts you so in the zone that hours and hours pass and you've barely glanced at the clock? If money were no issue, what is the thing you feel so passionately about that you'd do it for free? What do you care about enough to want to put in the time required to get better and better at it?

One day he finally got a math concept (converting between hours and fractions of hours, as I remember) he'd been struggling and struggling with, so I praised him up and down, and told him it was a good day, a day to remember.   "It was just one minute," he said. "What's the rest of the day gonna do for me?"   "Sometimes you only get one good minute a day," I said. "You just have to make the most of it.

That's the way it has to be. If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.

A whim did not provide a living.

All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.

Why should she try to do these things? What motivates a child to grow?

learned to imitate. The much-maligned techniques of behavior modification — rewards and more rarely penalties — eventually provided her adequate motivation. Characteristically, the reinforcers were not food or praise but numbers, a rising tally on a golf counter. Every new skill made life easier for us and richer for her, as her repertoire of activities expanded.

There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall also know what I love here. Fear has always guided me toward what I desire. And because I desire, I fear. Often it was fear that took me by the hand and led me. Fear leads me to danger. And everything I love is risky.

She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.

Tens o hábito de querer saber por quê - e porque não me interessa, a causa é matéria de passado.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Resources are what he uses to do it, processes are how he does it, and priorities are why he does it.

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures.

All people work for money. Principled people work for life.