Quotes About Motivation

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

This review also pointed to six common components of effective brief treatment (cf. Miller & Sanchez, 1994), summarized by the acronym FRAMES: Feedback of personal status relative to norms Responsibility for personal change Advice to change Menu of options from which to choose in pursuing change Empathic counselor style Support for self-efficacy What began as an interest in motivation for treatment had broadened now to focusing on motivation for change.

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change.

client openness versus defensiveness, change talk versus sustain talk, is very much a product of the therapeutic relationship. "Resistance" and motivation occur in an interpersonal context.

The blitzkrieg, in short, had been perfected for a sleek, hard-muscled, superbly trained, and passionately motivated army, such as the German General Staff had fashioned during the decades between the wars. It was quite unsuited for a ponderous, top-heavy army of ill-trained soldiers led by timid officers, overseen by inexperienced party ideologues, and sent forth to conquer a country whose terrain consists of practically nothing but natural obstacles to military operations.

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

They fool me to the top of my bent.

All impediments in fancy's courseAre motives of more fancy.

O! the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."

Every why hath a wherefore.

How all occasions do inform against me,And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.Sure he that made us with such large discourse,Looking before and after, gave us notThat capability and godlike reasonTo fust in us unus'd.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

If you find it difficult to write, lower your standards.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

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the hope Of active days urged on by flying hours,—

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Positive thoughts lead to positive actions.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others

Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.