Quotes About Motivation

William tapped Nicholas on the shoulder and said, "My advice to you is more speeches and more parades.

If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.

They create energy, and even though this is intangible it generates client sales and follow-on work as well as gets other people here engaged in and supportive of what they are doing.

Our interviews also suggest that energizers get more from those around them.

All things being equal, energizers also win out in the internal labor market by attracting other high performers.

In other words, energizers raise the overall level of performance around them.

energy is not entirely a product of a set of behaviors in a given interaction but is also affected by people's day-to-day actions.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Eisenhower insisted, every man and woman not on the front lines, must see this. "We are told the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now, at least, he will know what he is fighting against."11 Patton

Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.

The roots of workaholism are truly sown in narcissistic homes; 'I do, therefore I am

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

How many pessimists end up desiring the things they fear, in order to prove they are right?

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?

your business.

Once you've experienced the joy of taking the first step, you can decide whether it's appropriate to take another. You'll know you're ready when your current step becomes automatic, effortless, and even pleasurable. But don't let anyone pressure you... If you ever feel yourself dreading the activity or making excuses for not performing it, it's time to cut back on the size of the step.

that feeling you might call "writer's block" is actually fear. The

small rewards encourage internal motivation because they are really a form of recognition rather than material gain, signaling that the corporation or boss appreciates the employee's internal desire to improve and contribute.

What is a tiny step I could make to achieve my goal?

The steps were so small I couldn't fail!

The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not

I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try for them at all.

Who are these characters? What do they want? Why do they want it? How do they go about getting it? What stops them? What are the consequences? Finding the answers to these grand questions and shaping them into story is our overwhelming creative task.