Quotes About Motivation

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?

The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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.

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, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

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.

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.

First, you must believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. Remember the old adage: genius is ten percent inspiration, ninety percent perspiration.

Fear is coursing through her, but fear is a liberation too. Fear releases power and is the precursor to action.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Self-help is the best help.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Mucha gente hay que hace un bien sólo si de él recoge beneficio, no por amor y respeto a lo que es justo.

Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.

There are students that are scattered, who need to see something through to the finish, but I would say there are possibly more who do not entertain the leaps of the mind that need to be nurtured, and this desire to finish becomes more about being a good student than about finishing something interesting. Where does work ethic fit in with writing? I think that's pretty complicated from one writer to the next. You need some kind of work ethic, but what does it look like for you?

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Paul's greatest contribution to the progressive cause wasn't what he accomplished in the senate, although he accomplished a lot. It's the way he inspired others to take action, and taught them to be effective, and gave them the confidence to stand up and shout about what they believed it.

political will is a renewable resource

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.