Quotes About Motivation

Yet hypocrites are like tops that go no longer than they are whipped, but the sincere soul is ready and forward, it doth not want will to do a duty when it wants skill and strength how to do it.

King James said of a minister in his time, he preached as if death was at his back.

Great Tamerlane carried the lives of his ancestors into the field with him, in which he used to read before he gave battle, that he might be stirred up not to stain the blood of his family by cowardice or any unworthy behaviour in fight.

He that thinks he works for a song, as we say, will not sing at his work

Sloth is not cured with sleep, nor laziness with idleness.

The Spirit puts forth an act of exsuscitation[4] upon the soul, to stir up his affections.

God hath ap pointed prayer as a help to our diligence, not as a cloak for our sloth.

He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through his high-discipline he converted the fire into a central glow and motive force of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.

Someday someone is going to create a stir by proposing a radical new tool for the study people. It will be called the face-value technique. It would be based on the premise that people often do what they do for the reasons they think they do. The use of this technique will lead to many pitfalls, for it is undeniably true that people do not always act logically or say what they mean. But I wonder if it would produce findings any more unscientific than the opposite course.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.

People who fight for a country just because they are paid to do so are mercenaries, and they have no problem switching sides if it serves their interests (Lex Luthor is a classic example).

nuclei accumbens fire not only with reward, but even more intensely with its anticipation, be it culinary, sexual, social, or financial.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.