Quotes About Motivation

and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn't he?

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he want to never so much, but that his conduct proceeds from his inborn and inalterable character, is narrowly and in particulars determined by motivation, and is thus necessarily the product of these two factors.

A human being does at all times only what he wills, and yet does it necessarily. But that rests on the fact that he is what he wills : for out of what he is everything that he does at any time follows necessarily.

We take no pleasure in existence except when we are striving after something.

Women always take things personally and their mind is designed to achieve personal ends.

Umut gerçeÄŸin reddediliÅŸidir , koÅŸmaya devam etmesi için at?n burnunun ucunda salland?rd?klar? havuçtan ibarettir.

A man can do what he wants but not want what he wants.

perché come il mondo è da un lato, in tutto e per tutto, rappresentazione, così dall'altro, in tutto e per tutto, volontà.

Herkes istediÄŸini yapabilir, ama istediÄŸini isteyemez

El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.

The reason has to be that doctors remain at least partly motivated by the hope of doing meaningful and respected work for people and society.

the encounter somehow made the goal seem attainable.

believe that the difference in death rates can be traced to the fundamental human need for a reason to live.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

You need to reach down and touch the thing that's boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.

Our visions begin with our desires.