Quotes About Motivation

Al fin y al cabo, la mayordomía es llevar una vida en la que los dos mandamientos mayores, el amor a Dios y el amor a nuestro prójimo, son la motivación y la fuerza motriz de todo lo que hacemos.

The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.

Our character is a lifelong project, and perhaps the older we are, and the more fixed our shortcomings are, the more we can use inspiration to encourage our escape from the restraints of our deficiencies. The

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Look at almost any of the great players. Would they have succeeded anyway if they hadn't been pushed? That's the unanswerable question. Would Agassi have been a great champion if he hadn't been pushed by his father? Would Monica Seles, if her father hadn't quit his job and pushed her? It's difficult to say.

It turned out that they already had enough ESL teachers and what they needed was people to teach high school equivalency math. I wasn't particularly interested in high school math acquisition, but nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment.

Come on, man. What's that about?" U.S. Rep. Cummings

However, deep down, Brenda suspected that it was the stolen nature of those two hours that transformed them. She was supposed to be somewhere else... She had set aside those two hours - three, if you counted the driving - to be of service to her sister. The fact that Vicki had unexpectedly granted her leave gave those two hours a rarefied quality. What Brenda had thought was, I'd better not waste them. And, like magic, the words had come. The pages had filled.

Die wichtigste Lehre für die Politikanalyse und -gestaltung, die sich aus der hier skizzierten intellektuellen Reise ableiten lässt, lautet, dass Menschen komplexere Motivationsstrukturen und mehr Fähigkeiten zur Lösung sozialer Dilemmas mitbringen als die Theorie der rationalen Wahl annimmt.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

Sometimes it bothered him, but mostly it was pretty nice to know that his parents wholeheartedly believed he could do anything, yet were still bursting with pride when he did.

After the first attempt of the Nike Breaking2 project Eluid Kipchoge ran the fastest marathon in history 2:00:25. After he finished he said this. The world now is only 25 seconds away - Eluid Kipchoge

Passion is a choice. You need to choose to be great. It's not a chance, it's a choice.

What you're saying is that making an employee work and profiting from that work are two different things.

For a foreman, heat-treat seems like a very small kingdom, not much of a prize. There is nothing intrinsically attractive about running that operation, and having only two people to manage makes it seem like no big deal. To prevent it from seeming like a demotion to them, I make a point to go down there periodically on each of the shifts. In talking to the foreman, I drop some rather direct hints that the rewards will be great for anyone who can improve the output of heat-treated parts.

Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.

What you believe will make a difference in the difference you make.

I will write my story for my better self.

What is your agenda, Don Sebastien? What is it you want of me? Of New Amsterdam?

I had the skills, and making myself hate them would have been a real waste of time and energy.

Sometimes, laziness was the next best thing to genius.

We all have our own purposes in seducing thee, Sir Poet. Thee, and that which thou dost harbor.

Something filled the Earl's eyes-not fury, precisely, or desperation, but whatever it was the player's part of Will's mind saw it and recognized it as motivation. And saw in that silence the thing Salisbury wouldn't say. James is a terrible king.

Much as I'd like to feed her her own superior smile sometimes, I still want the woman to like me. And I want her to like herself enough to keep doing what we need her for. Because, God knows, I haven't got it in me to try.