Quotes on Motivation

No man does anything from a single motive.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

All work is empty save when there is love.

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.