Quotes About Motivation

Highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity.

And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.

If we communicate the vision behind our ideas, the purpose guiding our products, people will flock to us.

Adam Rifkin

If you want to be original, "the most important possible thing you could do," says Ira Glass, the producer of This American Life and the podcast Serial, "is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.

Burnout is being overwhelmed by work. Boreout is being underwhelmed by work.

As pessoas muito bem-sucedidas apresentam três características em comum: motivação, capacidade e oportunidade. Para alcançar o sucesso, precisamos de combinar trabalho árduo, talento e sorte.

By looking on the bright side, we'll activate enthusiasm and turn on the go system.

The people who wait until the last minute are so busy goofing off that they don't have any new ideas. And on the flip side, the people who race in are in such a frenzy of anxiety that they don't have original thoughts either.

Productivity is just the means to the end. If you are not all intrinsically motivated maybe it's just the wrong project

With a baby, I'd have something to show for all this. I'd have a reason. At the least, I'd have something to leave behind.

I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

New Years resolution: be more awesome.

The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of authority as a form of good; the New English Bible is motivated by the opposite, an anxiety not to bore or intimidate. It is driven, in other words, by the desire to please and, in that way, is a form of language which has died.

Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.

The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages

Disciplines done for the wrong reasons actually sabotage transformation and numb us toward God and the truth. When we use spiritual practices to gain secondary things like spiritual cachet, success, approval and respect, we rob the discipline of its God-given grace.

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

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Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.