Quotes About Motivation

Where is the character coming from? What's motivating the character? What's the central conflict? Who's the antagonist? This is Act One development.

How much slower the work went when the joy of it was gone.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

I did learn fairly early that the best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to. The best leaders also know when they are wrong, and are capable of pulling themselves out. And the best leaders enable others to make decisions for them. Let me rephrase that. Much ofLinux's success can be attrib­uted to my own personality flaws: 1) I'm lazy; and 2) I like to get credit for the work of others.

There are three things that have meaning for life. They are the motivational factors for everything in your life––for anything that you do or any living thing does: The first is survival, the second is social order, and the third is entertainment. Everything in life progresses in that order.

Good things can be forged from bone-deep fury.

You don't become a teacher without having some level of optimism. And you don't stay in the field if you don't believe that everyone, from bitter teens to burnt-out administrators, can change. I

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.