Quotes About Motivation

If you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around

Good stories provide a simple and coherent account of people's actions and intentions.

People can overcome some of the superficial factors that produce illusions of truth when strongly motivated to do so.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people's wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.

So what motivates people to work hard every day to do things that will satisfy the economy's needs but not their own? Like so many thinkers, Smith believed that people want just one thing—happiness—hence economies can blossom and grow only if people are deluded into believing that the production of wealth will make them happy.14 If and only if people hold this false belief will they do enough producing, procuring, and consuming to sustain their economies.

In our experience as employees, leaders, and consultants, issues of power and control—more than any other emotions—create the greatest conflicts and most unpleasant work environments. Unfortunately, some individuals are motivated by power alone to seek positions of leadership.

Our reasons for reading what we do are as eccentric as our reasons for living as we do.

Ce n'était pas seulement leur savoir que ces professeurs partageaient avec nous, c'était le désir même du savoir ! (p. 262)

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

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No work again today, huh? You should be pounding the pavement instead of playing computer games. At least get some exercise. How do you expect to find a woman if you're all pasty and scrawny? Guess the family name's dying with you. No work again today, huh?

The theatre is irresistible, organise the theatre!

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

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As Jack Welch, the famous former CEO of General Electric, once said, "Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Dreams are what keep a man going.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Read this book when you are stuck. But don't read it instead of drawing.

Skip perfection. A lame drawing is better than no drawing.

Make it a good day.