Quotes About Motivation

Scott Peck's major insight in his best-selling book, The Road Less Traveled. He told me personally once that he felt most Western people were just spiritually lazy. And when we are lazy, we stay on the path we are already on, even if it is going nowhere. It is the spiritual equivalent of the second law of thermodynamics: everything winds down unless some outside force winds

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

imagination without energy remains inert...

people confuse power with will because so few of them have the foggiest idea what they want. Absent any knowledge, will remains impotent. A limp dick, as it were." She regarded him, eyebrow arched. "The lucky few who happen actually to know what they want are said to have will-power.

the quickest way to beget a new desire, Bea knew, was to satisfy an old one...

Sully always maintained that if you had ten guys working on a rock pile, Rub would be the last you'd fire for laziness. Only when you'd fired all the others would you realize that Rub had not yet addressed his first rock.

Like I said, what makes people tick isn't neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward

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

I earned good money,' he said. 'I was driving in good teams, I was winning races, I had pole positions … basically, not a lot to prove. So what is the point to take still the risk? That was my question to myself last week. But the other side is, what is the rest of your life?

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.

He murdered Mary Dalton accidentally, without thinking, without plan, without conscious motive. But, after he murdered, he accepted the crime. And that's the important thing. It was the first full act of his life; it was the most meaningful, exciting and stirring thing that had ever happened to him. He accepted it because it made him free, gave him the possibility of choice, of action, the opportunity to act and to feel that his actions carried weight.

If we don't know what we do and why we do it, everything else will look like a possible option.

The puzzle of performance becomes much simpler when the bar is visible each day.

Energy, not time, is the main currency in high performance.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin

And so I replied, "You just don't know the right kind of motivational speakers!" And she: "Top answer! Top answer!" ??? (Posted 3/3/2012)

Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.

Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. "Go on, Professor Grace!" he said, wide-eyed. "I wanna get an A on the test.

Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are.

I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.

Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.

Run!" Piper said. "We are running!" Jason picked up the speed. "Run better!" Leo shouted.

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.