Quotes About Motivation

the French translation;

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

People act out of love or they act out of fear," she said. "Those are the only two primary motivators.

No one likes to be confronted with the truth about what they will do when motivated by fear. But its only human to act in our own self-interest. The slop is a slippery one, an abyss below. It gets away from you, that morality you cling to when things are going well. Its when the bottom falls out of your life that you really see who you are.

As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

Pull yourself together, Selena, she chided. Fix this. End this. Write a better headline.

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She'd be doing it strictly out of love for the craft—not for the claps that came with.

The French term un acte manqué describes a form of self-sabotage whereby the unconscious sets about wrecking – for whatever reason – what the conscious has built.

Writing is a job. Some days you don't feel like doing your job. But there is no teacher's block or dentist's block. I can't figure out why we have created this mysterious phrase .. only for writers .. which only means I don't feel like doing this right now.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving , the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Lois McMaster Bujold

So… so you went through all this effort, perpetrated all this pointless cruelty, just to make yourself feel better?" A wordless snarl. Pen's voice went dry; he couldn't help it. "Is it working?

do it later. Guilt still gnawed on

Good works will be recognized ultimately, but if you work for the recognizion alone, you may be in for a long wait.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz