Quotes About Motivation

Kahneman and Tversky conclude that people are not risk-averse across the board, though they are loss-averse: they seek risk if it may avoid a loss.29

No one has ever recruited activists to a cause by announcing that things are getting better

One [dogma] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators.

A snapshot of these forces pushing in the same direction may be found in an advertisement for tractors in a 1921 issue of the magazine Successful Farming entitled "Keep the Boy in School": The

it's easier to deter people from crime if the lawful alternative is more appealing.

Human selfishness being what it is, almost everyone kept the pleasant task for themselves.

Active, shmactive!

The beliefs, moreover, must be held in service of a goal. No one gets rationality credit for merely thinking true thoughts, like calculating the digits of ?

With this definition the case for rationality seems all too obvious: do you want things or don't you? If you do, rationality is what allows you to get them.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. You must love what you do.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.