Quotes About Motivation

Here, as in other speeches, Churchill demonstrated a striking trait: his knack for making people feel loftier, stronger, and, above all, more courageous.

Be the kind of people that have enough passion to change the world. If we let ourselves be fire, thunder, or lightning, we could alter everything.

I didn't understand what he was doing, what he wanted from me. Because in my experience, people wanted something from each other. To use them, to gain friendship, for a romantic relationship. I didn't think he had any of those three as his motivation, and it was like a Rubik's Cube that I kept turning around and around with no solution

He looks on an education only as a magic formula, which should enable him to go through life without work.

when people do not have self-esteem they cannot act, they break down.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." WILLIAM JAMES

The basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death.

Hunger is good discipline.

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

But an army that is made up of good and bad elements cannot win a war. All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. All must believe in the fight they are to make and all must accept discipline. - For Whom the Bell Tolls

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

La pasión es el combustible que produce urgencia.

Nietzsche's observation, "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

There are things that must be done today, things that you and you alone were created to accomplish. Some of us are wasting our time burning daylight when what we need to be doing is seizing the power of every moment.

The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.

It's not our job to be liked(teachers), I reminded her. Its our job to help them be smart(students). Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies

It is want that does the world's arousing, and if it were not for that, who knows what might not be interrupted?

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.

MADELEINE: Well, then, if you've always been such a sober-sides, if you've nothing seriously wrong with you, if all your faculties are still intact, wake yourself up a bit, get to work, write your masterpiece . . . AMÉDÉE: I tell you I've no inspiration . . .

What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.