Quotes About Motivation

There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane—as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout—there may be no more potent

Politicians, singers, and preachers are in the same business, using sound to move hearts and change minds.

Jefferson had a remarkable capacity to marshal ideas and to move men, to balance the inspirational and the pragmatic.

I knew that a President can appeal to the best in our people or the worst; he can call for action or live with inaction.

So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time.

Yeah,' said Al. 'I'm very prone to boredom. I gotta go do something. Yeah. That's a fair statement. I'm not the most relaxed person in the world. My mind does not stop working all night.' 'Manipulative?' I said. 'I think you could describe that as leadership,' he said. 'Inspire! I think it's called leadership.

if you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win

all violence being a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

We've got to squash this dewy-eyed belief that people can be motivated by anything other than money.

He wondered if an action, to qualify as authentically good, needed not only to be untainted by self-interest but also to bring no pleasure of any kind.

Shouldn't goodness be its own reward? He [Perry Hildebrandt] wondered if an action, to qualify as authentically good, needed not only to be untainted by self-interest but also to bring no pleasure of any kind.

He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.

And she had discovered the best reason, the one that trumps all others: She did it because she liked the way it made her feel. Is

People who have a choice will no longer work to serve your reasons, your goals. They will not work to serve your authority, they will only work to serve their own.

It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction.

I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

When our motivation to obey becomes an oppressive pressure to do the right thing, to do what's expected of us as Christians, then it breeds serious problems. Obedience that is only seen as rule-keeping ruins the love relationship between us and the Lord. Why? Even though the rules may be biblically based, we will end up obeying them rather than God. Concern with the letter of the law will cause us to lose the spirit of love.

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.

Y es el sentido común el que, sin lugar a dudas, nos grita desde nuestro yo interno más sabio: ¡Utilizá todo lo que tenés para redoblar tu posibilidad de llegar adonde querés!

Motivar no consiste en conseguir que el otro haga lo que yo quiero, sino en lograr que el otro quiera hacer lo que yo quiero".

Nada me obliga a seguir adelante, nada que no sea mi propio deseo de hacerlo.

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves