Quotes About Motivation

La narrativa o mueve montañas o es aburrida; o mueve montañas o se sienta sobre su propio culo

As essayist Lewis Hyde points out, self-mocking irony is always Sincerity, with a motive.

I worry that I am driven by a] basically vapid urge to be avant-garde and post structural and linguistically calisthenic. This is why I get very spiny when I think someone's suggesting this may be my root motive and character because I'm afraid it might be.

Anger and jealousy are two of the most powerful motivators known to man. In fact, someone said to me that jealousy is fear of loss brought into the immediate present. Think about that. If you see someone else walking away with something you want, that's fear of loss right before your eyes.

No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

Every dictator in history, from Philip of Macedon to the Tyrant of Asia, claimed to be—and probably was, in his beginnings—motivated solely by benevolence.

I don't know why Jamie wanted to change, I think it's because he wanted to be like his dad. I know I wanted to change because I wanted to be like Jamie.

As you look at a client, force yourself to ask three questions: • What is the client's prevailing personal motivation? • What is their personality? • How does the state of their organization affect their worldview?

I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for reason to kill.

Psychologist and marketing guru Ernest Dichter, known as the "father of motivational research," explains that when human beings become fearful, most will regress to soothing, even infantile, behaviors and animalistic drives to distract themselves from, and channel, their anxiety.

Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). The more aware we are of His impending return, the more motivated we'll be in our work for Him in these last days.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

Make more than dust.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy either.

He says, No I want to be strong in a different way. Not because of me But for me

i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade.

i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade. that has to get to you after a while, being surrounded by people who will never like you for any real reason.

There's only so long that you can stare at a wall before you feel like an idiot.

Let all the dreamers wake the nation.