Quotes About Motivation

conocido principio del comportamiento humano, cuando pedimos a alguien que nos haga un favor, tendremos más posibilidades de conseguirlo si le damos un motivo. A las personas les gusta tener motivos para hacer algo.

a)What causes it to be desirable. b)What causes it to be possible. c)What causes this to be the appropriate path. d)What makes me/us capable. e)What makes me/us deserving.

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

this would involve moving incrementally from the negative state to another state which is only somewhat negative; confusion, for example. From the somewhat negative state, a small but significant step can be made to a state that is slightly positive; let's say curiosity about what might happen next. It is then relatively simple to take a step from the somewhat positive state to the desired state of motivation.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

leaders need to help people overcome the four "work-avoidance mechanisms" that most of the rest of us carry around in our heads. Those mechanisms are denial that a problem exists, the desire to escape responsibility even when we recognize the problem, the tendency to scapegoat others for causing it, and—worst of all—cynicism about the possibility of ever remedying the problem.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

It's not that I'm a Type?B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.