Quotes About Motivation

What do we need all that for? "If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without a Cause is such a picture.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

Anger is a good motivator.

Fear is always a good motivator.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

One of Watson's many passionately held beliefs was that too many people failed to fulfil their potential because they didn't make enough effort to use their brains. He insisted that the word 'THINK' be posted on placards around C-T-R's offices and also on people's desks.

you're angling for me to sanction petrol for you to go to

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.

As writer Jack London put it: "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club!

Attention is malleable. We can intensify it, shift it either voluntarily or involuntarily. We can soften it, diffuse it. We can deploy global attention toward tangible external objects, or to their intangible attributes. We can direct attention internally to retrieve items that we have stored in memory. We can sustain attention by infusing a component of motivation, either from the top-down (by intention) or by much more subtler means related to our habitual ongoing attitudes.

All men of action are dreamers.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

La visión sin acción es un sueño. La acción sin visión es una pesadilla.

As Nietzsche said: 'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Personal meaning is the way we connect to a wider team purpose. If our values and beliefs are aligned with the values and beliefs of the organization, then we will work harder towards its success. If not, our individual motivation and purpose will suffer, and so will the organization.