Quotes About Motivation

But my main motivation is fear of regret. I worry that if I didn't go, one day I'd look back and wonder, What if I had?

But my main motivation is fear of regret.

I would not be concerned with the secrets, the lies, the mysteries, the facts. I would be concerned with what makes them necessary. What fear.

Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts. What can be removed is the motivation.

And now to work. Maybe you need a woman behind you, as I need a man behind me. I said a man! Mars the warrior, with fire in his nostrils. Anaïs

We need only to sharpen up the implements. I can see you giving birth to books in rapid succession. I believe in you enormously—I was genuinely stirred—also exasperated.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Everyone was good at talking about day-to-day events, but no one ever looked at what motivated them.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet

North Korean rulers do what they are doing not because they are "evil" or driven by some delusionary ideologies, but rather

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

El secreto de mi éxito fue rodearme de personas mejores que yo.

Christianity does not displace scientific accounts of the world; rather, it lends them ontological depth and clarity, and in doing so, discloses a greater vision of reality – a vision that gives both intellectual resilience and existential motivation to the task of apologetics.

People find it easier to join an ongoing success. Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

Let your instincts contribute to your performance.

Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

This might come as a shock: if you aren't happy now, maybe you haven't wanted it enough.

You didn't fight so hard to survive – and then do nothing with your life.

We all fail. But it is not failing that hurts. What hurts is knowing that you didn't give your best.