Quotes on Motivation

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.