Quotes About Motivation

Rockefeller never had a single motive for any action and was surely motivated by more than altruism in championing cheap kerosene.

sometimes people use complete honesty as an excuse for sadism.

Nothing of value was ever achieved in the morning.

any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.

They figured they would eat in California. Which would make them hungry, but Reacher didn't mind being hungry. he believed hunger kept him sharp. He believed is stimulated creativity in the brain. Another old evolutionary legacy. If you're hungry, you work out a smarter way to get the next woolly mammoth, today, not tomorrow.

Human motivation is very complex. Most people don't really know why they do things.

Laziness and complacency.

half-ton did. He said, "No one is here to work with you, boy. We're here to kick your

get something out of them.

My people don't need any encouraging. They don't need much leading. They need guidance, and they need discipline, but don't let that fool you. I'm not coercing anybody. Don't make the mistake of underestimating their will. Don't ignore their desire for a change for the better.

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Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.

Waiting for inspiration to write is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to

Take long brisk strides wherever you walk at work and look like you have a mission to accomplish. Keep your destination in mind, an concentrate on what you will do when you get there. Look directed. Look determined. Look dynamic!

So I believe then that the primary motive, the most intelligible motive of the doctrine of eternal return in Nietzsche is to make intelligible nature as humanly willed and not given. And the whole difficulty in Nietzsche's philosophy, I believe, is concentrated in this point.

Caroline are definitely the people to carry it out." Men of ambition understood men of ambition

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.

recent years psychologists have found that the ability to persist in the face of obstacles is at least as important a factor in success as talent.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received

The defenders of capitalism spent their time broadcasting the vibrations of guilt and futility. Implicitly or explicitly, they were telling the country: human intelligence is impotent to control the course of society, men are helpless in the face of their own motivation, laissez-faire appeals to the evil in men, but men are stuck with it.

An interest," writes Kant, "is present only in a dependent will which is not of itself always in accord with reason; in the divine will we cannot conceive of an interest.

Starting kids reading before they're ready can actually boomerang and turn them off to reading

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.