Quotes About Motivation

The one thing you can say about people for sure, is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

The problem is, they said, he has no fear. But it seems to me that exactly the reverse is true: he has too much fear, so much that he is driven to enact the thing of which he is afraid, lest it should happen of its own accord.

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

Music is only work when someone else makes you do it.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.

I watch a lot of Dwyane Wade. D-Wade was in the Finals his third year and he was getting to the free-throw line 10 times a game.

It's great, just to even get mentioned in the category with the type of person like Dwyane Wade, one of the best NBA players in the league today. It's great, and that makes me work even that much harder to be better than him.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

I'm honoured to train players that want more from their football than just raising their small wages.

As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will only get half your wages this week,' it would make the players fight harder.

I don't care about wages or fees, I just want to improve my football, which is a side to me that the fans aren't aware of.

That feeling you had in the lower leagues, the hunger you need to win and even earn wages, has never left me.

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!