Quotes About Motivation

People will urge you to go to school. They'll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80's. You are here to hustle.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

All learning has an emotional base.

Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future!

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.