Quotes About Motivation

Why did you do all that, Frankie?" asked Porter. "I mean, it was brilliant, what you did, what you made us do - but why would you bother? That's what I can't figure out." Frankie sighed. "Have you ever heard of the panopticon?" she asked him. Porter shook his head. "Have you ever been in love?" He shook his head again. "Then I can't explain it," Frankie said. They went inside and took the geometry test.

Like, in Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp is one big ambition machine. She'll stop at zero. Jane Eyre has temper tantrums, throws herself on the floor. Pip in Great Expectations is deluded and money hungry. All of them want a better life and go after it, and all of them are morally compromised. That makes them interesting.

I like the idea of a motto,' she goes on. 'I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.' 'Like what?' asks Gat. Mirren pauses. Then she says, 'be a little kinder than you have to.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"

The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go'

Distance is inspiration's best hearting.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.

While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.

There are moments when the inner life actually "pays," when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.  Such moments are still rare in the West; that they come at all promises a fairer future.

He hadn't a God, he hadn't a lover – the two usual incentives to virtue.

A child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic, and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling. Punishment (or the threat of it) for this lack of interest is unlikely to bring the best out of him.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.