Quotes About Motivation

Whatever behavior the ego manifests, the hidden motivating force is always the same: the need to stand out, be special, be in control; the need for power, for attention, for more.

To an onlooker, it may appear that you are under stress, but the intensity of enthusiasm has nothing to do with stress. When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.

I'll go even further and say that competitiveness in mountaineering is wrong. It's dangerous. Climbing should be personally motivated.

if you're passionate about something and self-motivated, those are the key ingredients.

I realized that belief is a key ingredient in trying to do things that are difficult.

I did it on a wing and a prayer, and even though I didn't have enough confidence to do the show, I had a theory; if I assume I have the confidence, I'll tell everyone I'm doing it, and then people will come and we'll actually do it. Once we've done it, I'll have the confidence to do it again. It was some sort of weird positive-thinking confidence mantra because I had to get there.

The world owes me a living, and it's up to me to collect it.

But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .

Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.

If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it.

A revolution never will start among a bunch of bums.

world, where competition was seen as regional in nature, have suddenly become global. Because of the difficulty of assessing what motivates competitors under conditions of state capitalism, capital cycle analysis tends to be more effectively applied to industries which are largely domestic in nature or where the dominant players are inclined to Anglo-Saxon style capitalism (as is the case in the global beer industry).

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labour;

Hay muchas clases de mujeriegos. A unos los mueve la vanidad o un sentimiento de poder; a otros, la avidez. Luc actuada movido por un simple motivo: una insondable curiosidad.

the two men left the building with a sense of achievement, counterbalanced by desire.

Aren't most diets, even when they are ostensibly under the heading of "health," dedicated to impressing others? The desire for the "praise of men" is one of the ways we exalt people above God.

Daniel Kahneman astutely observed, "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.

A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.

She wanted him to become cleverer, so that she could become cleverer still.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.