Quotes About Motivation

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

While leadership is important, just as important is how leadership is communicated. On the one hand, you can command good performance from someone in exchange for not firing them. On the other hand, you might be able to ignite the desire in a person to perform well by tuning in to their state of mind.

I knew I wanted to act from when I was five, and I started studying seriously when I was six and seven. Not with anybody else, but I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

Homo logicus are driven by an irresistible desire to understand how things work. By contrast, Homo sapiens have a strong desire for success. Programmers also want to succeed, but they will frequently accept failure as the price to pay for understanding.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

How we see ourselves and what we base our worth on are primary motivators throughout life.

And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?

None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.

But I was beginning to see how she must have thought she was doing something good for us, even though she was wrong.

Congrats, Karen. Give yourself a pat on the ass.

You are a manipulator when you try to persuade people to do something that is not in their best interests but is in yours. You are a motivator when you find goals that will be good for both sides, then weld together a high-achieving, high-morale partnership to achieve them.

Replace self-criticism with regular, positive self-talk. Replace fear of failure with clear pictures of yourself functioning successfully and happily.

Watkins, S.B.,

I think that people's nature is always to want a better life. So from that, we should not expect human beings to behave for benefit of the rest of nature-of the environment. You can only expect people to help the environment out of their own interest" Proffessor Zheng Zhe

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

Thankfully there is a tiny sliver of my brain that fights back. Without it I would never do anything interesting.

Ikigai is the overlap of what you want to do, what you ought to do, and what you have to do.

Rise to the occasion. Roar like a lion.

Lack of ambition is for baseline humans.]

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.