Quotes About Motivation

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.

My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

Evolution leads the way through desire.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was.

The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.

Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.