Quotes About Motivation

How did you know that what you sought was redemption and not righteous vengeance?

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

Nothing we human beings do is without emotion.

People say, "You've gotta go on, man, otherwise all those kids, they'll be finished, they'll have nothing to live for." That's rock and roll!

We need to understand exactly how appalling parenting created the now self-perpetuating trauma that we live in. We can learn to do this in a way that takes the mountain of unfair self-blame off ourselves. We can redirect this blame to our parents' dreadful child-rearing practices. And we can also do this in a way that motivates us to reject their influence so that we can freely orchestrate our journey of recovering.

For people to be happy in life, two factors are crucial: One is good interpersonal relationships and the second is a feeling of productivity. That feeling feeds motivation.

Sometimes fear helps, he said. Like fear of flunking a test, so you study. But when bad's going to happen for sure, fear only hurts.

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

2) Asking For The Order Doesn't Motivate People To Buy. What motivates people to buy is when they get that you "get" them—that you understand their world, and have shown how your product/service will impact their company in ways important to them. In most cases, the salesperson that wins the deal isn't the one with the best product or lowest price, but the one who best articulates the customer's point of view.

Henry James in "The Lesson of Balzac" praised his precursor for giving his characters "the long rope," for acting themselves out. That grant of freedom to his created life was for James crucial to Balzac's success in representation of persons in the world. James saw Balzac's creation of character as ultimately motivated by love: "The love, as we call it, the joy in their communicated and exhibited

Study skills and learning skills are inert until they're powered by an active ingredient," Dweck says. The active ingredient is the simple but nonetheless profound realization that the power to increase your abilities lies largely within your own control.

When you praise for intelligence, kids get the message that being seen as smart is the name of the game. "Emphasizing effort gives a child a rare variable they can control," Dweck says. But "emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of a child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure." 18

They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Leaders who use coercion are interested in their own goals and seldom are interested in the wants and needs of followers. Using coercion runs counter to working with followers to achieve a common goal.

Grief can be an incredible source of energy. For good.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

No permanecerán atentos si no les emociona la lucha de la fase central.

Había enseñado durante más de treinta años que las historias explican, ejemplifican, unen y motivan al transportar emocionalmente a los interlocutores.