Quotes About Motivation

Feedback is most powerful when it is linked to a goal and it informs the learner how they are progressing toward that goal. Feedback that compares the learner's outcomes to the outcomes of others draws attention to the self and has been shown to reduce motivation for learning.

Don't economize, earn more money.

The depth of desire has a great deal to do with the outcome of our life. Often, those who accomplish what they set out to do in life are not those who are the most talented or gifted or who have had the best opportunities. Often they are the ones who are most deeply in touch with how badly they want whatever they want; they are the ones who consistently refuse to be deterred by the things that many of us allow to become excuses.

Note to self: don't die.

For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

Concentrate on the reward, not the labor, and the achievement, the accomplishment, will become a little easier to obtain.

Religion: Any religion that inspires, encourages, motivates, coerces, compels, forces, unjust behaviors, acts, or constraints, prohibits, just behaviors, acts, is not a religion at all, it is a false teaching. Don't ever devote yourself to it.

Turn your dreams into goals, turn your goals into achievements.

You should always be a positive dreamer and a goal achiever.

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

[T]he author writes as a race-horse runs, for the sake of it. He feels like it, and kindles just because he enjoys burning.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure."

Purpose and revenge were all I needed. Everything else be damned." His face darkened with something more intense than mere desire. "Until you, Rose. You make me feel more human than I ever felt when I was one.

One habit I have not yet succeeded in getting rid of: the inveterate one of feeling that when at home I must sit at my desk for so long each day to write, not letters whether of business or of friendship, but printable stuff, even when there is no idea of publishing connected with it. If I have failed to do it, I feel morally hang-doggy and physically unclean.

T]he primary motive for the illness is the pleasure itself of remaining in the secure retreat of the childish situation once so unwillingly left behind.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

bana öyle geliyor ki, hakikaten yapabilece?imiz bir tek i? vard?r, o da ölmek. bak, bunu yapabiliriz ve ancak bu takdirde irademizi tam bir ?ey yapmakta kullanm?? oluruz. ben ne diye bu i?i yapm?yorum diyeceksin! demin söyledim ya, müthi? bir gev?eklik içindeyim. ü?eniyorum.

bana öyle geliyor ki, hakikaten yapabilece?imiz bir tek i? vard?r, o da ölmek. bak, bunu yapabiliriz ve ancak bu takdirde irademizi tam bir ?ey yapmakta kullanm?? oluruz. ben ne diye bu i?i yapm?yorum diyeceksin! demin söyledim ya, müthi? bir gev?eklik içindeyim. ü?eniyorum. atalet kanunu icab? sürüklenip gidiyorum.

Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don't know what to do with themselves.

We act in order to express our fulfillment, not to acquire it.