Quotes About Motivation

It seems easier to respond to our enthusiasms by trading in facts than by investigating the more naive question of how and why we have been moved

În aceast? lume, respectul de sine depinde integral de ceea ce ne mân? de la spate s? fm sau s? facem.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money. It is because we are meaning-focused animals..

falsifications may occasionally need to be committed in the service of a goal higher still than accuracy:

a reason to start over new, the reason is you.

Asked where his inspiration came from, he said fiercely: 'It doesn't come, Your Majesty. You have to go out and fetch it.

Kyetäkseen kirjoittamaan ihmisen on oltava sitkeä.

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

People find money for the things they value. They do not find money for things they don't value. It's as simple as that. All else is excuse, distraction, complication, and smoke and mirrors.

Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of "not it" amplifies your intention to find "it," and you surely will.

We are all smart enough to do what we value doing. We find the time, money, and means to achieve what is important to us. We are not motivated to do the things that other people tell us we should do or we should want to do.

What you love to do the most is the shortest distance between where you are now and your dreams.

When you reframe problems as projects or opportunities, they will cease to bother you and begin to stimulate you.

When you are clear on the purpose behind your act, you have the answer as to whether or not you should do it.

Do it because you would, not because you should.

There are seven reasons people go to work: (1) Money; (2) Passionate self-expression; (3) Rewarding relationships; (4) Service to improve others' lives; (5) Egoic achievement, competitive victory, or status; (6) Fear, guilt, obligation, rote habit, or debt to tradition; and (7) Avoidance of boredom or escape from a more unpleasant situation. We might boil this list down to two basic motivations: fear-based lack and joy-based expression.

It wasn't the thought of death or the failure of their mission that troubled him as he sat there and played. It was a fear of personal failure, a fear that had haunted him since he'd been a child. It was the fear which had driven him to pursue two different careers without being able to choose between them. And though he didn't realize it, it was the fear which had driven more men and women to greatness than far more rational motivations… .

Well, he thought, one did what one had to do, so life went. No, one did what one had to do in order to do what one wanted to do - so life really went.

man can do what he wants," said Schopenhauer, "but not want what he wants.

I say we shall always have native crime to fear until the native people of this country have worthy purposes to inspire them and worthy goals to work for. For it is only because they see neither purpose nor goal that they turn to drink and crime and prostitution.

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.