Quotes About Motivation

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday. —ANONYMOUS

Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action.

Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

Besides that power, we need a path, an intelligent sense of logical progression.

Comprender y utilizar las fuerzas del dolor y del placer es lo que le permitirá, de una vez por todas, crear los cambios duraderos y las mejoras que desea para sí mismo y para aquellas personas que le importan. El no comprender esta fuerza le condena a un futuro en el que vivirá a base de reacciones, como un animal o una máquina.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

What!" said his sensible enemies, "is Johnny not to be taught to read because he does not like it?" "Johnny must read by all means," would the doctor answer; "but is it necessary that he should not like it? If the preceptor have it in him, may not Johnny learn, not only to read, but to like to learn to read?

Anthony Trollope

Men must have mercenary tendencies or they would not have bread. The man who ploughs that he may live does so because he, luckily, has a mercenary tendency.

The allurements of a steady income paled before his eyes, and he too began to tell himself, as he had often told himself before, that if he would only keep his eyes open and his heart high there was no reason why he too should not become a city millionaire.

Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work.

The new Queen was adept at fostering loyalty by hopes alone

what he wants. And

Sólo hay una fuerza motriz: el deseo.

La esperanza es el sueño del hombre despierto

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity

All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.