Quotes About Motivation

Desire urges me on while fear bridals me

Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.

Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's why I needed ancestry.com.

Gordon Korman

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GORDON KORMAN wrote his first book at age fourteen

My students are very motivated, he finished in a disappointed tone. Kids these days, Dan commiserated.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is high expectations.

A DRIVEN PERSON IS GRATIFIED (AND GRATIFIED TEMPORARILY) ONLY BY ACCOMPLISHMENT.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.

The Communists …' He was impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

I begin to rant. I'm special, I have needs, I have a job to do—once I get my act together. I'm going to be important.

What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed.

Caitlin's ambition is like a third person in the car.

Enlightened self-interest" was how Solo himself had described it.

emerges from logic, not desire.