Quotes About Motivation

Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

It was right after I dropped the song 'Don't,' and it started to go viral a little bit. That's when I was like, 'Alright, I might have something here.' Actually, I wasn't even going to quit my job, but Timbaland called me - we have a mutual friend - and he was like, 'Yo man, you need to work in Miami.'

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

Beyond ensuring that people everywhere have access to mental health, virtual digital assistants can act as learning companions, using their insight into what motivates and inspires you, to help you study and learn. In this way, AI could be used to level the playing field in education and help narrow socio-economic gaps around the world.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.

I definitely think everyone's competitive on some level, there's virtually no-one who hasn't cared at some point about something they've done.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

I discovered in Melbourne how wonderful it is to be part of a successful team, when good morale spreads throughout the squad, among athletes and coaches and infects you like a virus - but one that you want to catch.

When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'