Quotes About Motivation

Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

So just bust a move!

Man muss das Positive sehen, sieh immer das Positive im Leben. Sieh es!! Das verdammte Scheißpositive!!!

Finally Abdellahi Moussa Boqor asked, "So why are you doing this?" I paused for a moment, and then the words just came out of my mouth. "It is the will of the soul," I said. "The soul cannot be coerced.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Terrorism, as the word is presently used, is a condition of ideological wickedness, stripped of any rational or legitimate context or motivation, and associated culturally with Islam and racially with Muslims.

We should see big dreams because it will encourage us to achieve.

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

One person manages another in the sense that he manages himself. He does not do so by changing feelings or states of mind. The Greek gods were said to change behavior by giving men mental states such as pride, mental confusion, or courage, but no one has been successful in doing so since. One person changes the behavior of another by changing the world in which he lives. In doing so, he no doubt changes what the other person feels or introspectively observes.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.