Quotes About Motivation

Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.

As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening--even, perhaps, a falling in love.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

contrary to an all-too-common misjudgement, it is not the case that theology and science are chalk and cheese, a matter of airy opinion compared with solid fact. Nor does the essential difference between them lie in a contrast between belief on the basis of submission to an unquestionable authority and belief based on grounds of rational motivation.

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.

Economics, when you strip away the guff and the mathematical sophistry, is largely about incentives.

The point of this hard work isn't to prove anything to anyone, only to transcend your own limitations.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

Just checking a website or your phone for a moment can cause a series of internal triggers, and in no time you will lose the motivation and focus you had. This can be a big obstacle for students and employees alike.

Knowing that time is running down, and that you are working against the clock forces you to work with clarity and urgency. The alternative of working for an unspecified amount of time can lead to an unfocused kind of work, where the mind wanders and we don't apply ourselves as well as we might. Time boxing is a powerful tool, so use it regularly.

A job, in their view, was a job, and, as with most jobs, you just had to find that perfect balance between doing as little as possible so you didn't get tired, and just enough so that you didn't get fired.

A funny thing about adults is they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.

Most people are not bad. Oh, they do bad things sometimes, and we all have a little badness in us, but very few people are unspeakably evil, and most of the bad things they do seem perfectly reasonable to them at the time. Perhaps they're bored, or selfish, or greedy, but, for the most part, they don't actually want to hurt anyone when they do bad things. They just want to make their own lives a little easier.

Mr. Renfield didn't like the Abernathys, exactly, but a funny thing about adults is that they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.

When your explanations to staff about their role in achieving the "bigger picture" create enthusiasm and gain their commitment.

A successful life is a string of successful days

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impulse converts it into a desire. Nevertheless neither impulse nor desire is itself a purpose. A purpose is an end-view. That is, it involves foresight of the consequences which will result from acting upon impulse.