Quotes About Motivation

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.

Desire inspires us to be our very best.

action. Even now, though, there

Churchill almost single-handedly changed the mood of a nation. Shaking the British out of their lethargy, he imposed his "imagination and will upon his countrymen,

I know what is wrong. You haven't decided what you want. She'd underlined this many times. Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. ? Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

There's not enough becomes the reason we do work that brings us down or the reason we do things to each other that we're not proud of. There's not enough generates a fear that drives us to make sure that we're not the person, or our loved ones aren't the people, who get crushed, marginalized, or left out.

It is easier to make excuses than changes.

Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts.

Thoughts that breathe life into us, not suck life from us.

It's not the "how to" I'm missing. It's the "want to" . . . really wanting to make changes and deciding that the results of those changes are worth the sacrifice.

willpower. Keep going!

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve but the will to labour.

Success never needs an excuse.

Hope, belief, and despair are not simply moods. They change our physical performance. They alter how quickly we react, how hard we fight, how quick we are to give up. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now.

Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men's souls. President Spencer W. Kimball

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Reward does more than make us work more effectively together—it stimulates creativity too. Reward, not necessity, is the true mother of invention.

If I punish you for defecting during an earlier encounter with me, then it is direct reciprocity. If I punish you for defecting in games with other players, it is an example of indirect reciprocity. Second, the motivation of people who mete out costly punishment in real life is hardly ever "altruistic.

you will greatly increase your chances of success if you stop long enough to get clear on your motivation, understand why you've been doing what you're doing now,

We do what we do because it serves some need.