Quotes About Motivation

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

Will is intention favored by emotions.

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self