Quotes About Motivation

Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

The best ways to motivate human beings are the oldest ways, tapping into timeless needs and emotions: hunger, thirst, fear of death, sex, beauty, identity, status, respect, honor, shame, love, compassion, community, fun. All of these tie back, directly or indirectly, to those most fundamental and evolutionary of motivations: survival and reproduction. The secret is learning how to tap these ancient motivations, and harnessing them to achieve modern goals.

Forget about calories and focus on accomplishment: don't take life sitting down. Then, when the day is done, you've earned your rest.

it is selfish," he says, "because you get more out of it than what you are putting into

Lastly, experiencers are not motivated to believe in the "truth of their experiences. Often they prefer to believe that they have had some sort of bad dream, and become intensely distressed when they realize in the interview that they were not asleep when the experience began.

It is likely that for most of us, the compulsive need to do well, succeed, and achieve is a reflection of deep-seated feelings of inferiority.

You can still graduate," my guidance counselor said. But I doubted his sincerity

don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

If there is something that you believe you would love to have in your life—such as a more fulfilling career, a life partner, or greater financial freedom—I can tell you that the reason you don't yet have it in that particular form is almost certainly that you don't truly value it enough. There

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. —JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

The younger generation has been a force for change in part because it refuses to accept the status quo as a given. Young people are motivated by what the literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky once called the 'energy of delusion.' If we knew the true magnitude of a task beforehand, we wouldn't undertake it in the first place. Thus, the older we get, and the more experience of challenge and failure that we endure, the less likely we are to attempt the impossible.

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Hate can destroy you or it can fuel you. I knew I had to find a way for it to fuel me." Krzyzewski

intense than playing to collect a check.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result—and ask yourself who might benefit from it.

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