Quotes About Motivation

Without a sense of purpose to life, a sense of what is truly most important to us, we become like the ball in a pinball machine, bouncing away from fear after fear. When we have a clear purpose, we may feel afraid or encounter obstacles, but we will do what it takes to move through the fear and solve the problems in front of us.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers remain emotional children, never achieving the cognitive moral development of adults. Psychologists have established that mature adults are moral not because of bare threats and bribes (that stage of moral development typifies children, not adults), but because they care about the effects their behavior has on themselves and others.

A leader is someone who can effectively exercise his influence on people that he can make them believe something he wants them to believe.

Leaders are not born. Leaders are built.

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

Entitlement is a double- edged sword (or a double-jawed trap) for kids. On one edge it gives kids all that they don't need—indulgence, dullness, conceit, and laziness; and on the backswing, it takes from them everything they do need—motivation, inde- pendence, inventiveness, pride, responsibility, and a chance to really work for things and to build their own sense of fulfill- ment and self-esteem.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

In conventional employment people are specifically hired to work for purposes which are not their own. They

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made by someone else.

The nudge provided by asking people what they intend to do can be accentuated by asking them when and how they plan to do it. This

This scoring system has no effect on the grade you get in the course, but it seems to make you happier.

1. If you want to encourage someone to do something, make it easy.

It is striking how seldom Paul uses eschatological judgment as a threat to motivate obedience. More characteristically, he points to the sanctifying work of God's Spirit, already underway in the community, as a ground of reassurance and hope.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Holy jump up and sit down.

His words of thanks contain four of the top six releasers for producing action patterns in someone else: reciprocity, scarcity, validation, and appeal to commitment. He hides the evidence of his begging under another trick gleaned from Chapter 12: If you want a person to help you, convince them that they've already helped you beyond saying. People will work hard to protect their legacy.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

Just do it better yourself and don't waste any time criticizing others or the past! This, in fact, purifies your own commitment and motivation.

I would almost describe spirituality as a concern for one's being, one's inner motivation and attitude, one's real inner Source, as opposed to any primary concern for one's "doing." Doing will always take care of itself when your being is right. It is our preoccupation with external forms and successes that makes us superficial, judgmental, split off and often just downright wrong—without knowing it.   god