“Flagrant disregard for the complexities of human motivation has led us to credit our ancestors with godlike omniscience. This, in turn, has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do we follow the road life’s placed before us? Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path. A path… — Christopher Babson Copy Share Image
“Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life...This meaning is unique and specific in that is must and can… — Victor Frankl Copy Share Image
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
If I play bad, that almost motivates me more than when I'm playing good because when you're playing good, it's like, OK,… — Viktor Hovland Copy Share Image
I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Let me,’ said Cass. ‘It’s just about the only thing that a poor white woman can still do.’ Ida looked at her,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In looking for the right places to make these tiny changes, there are three broad areas of opportunity. You can tweak your… — Susan David Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Are you trying to say that some kind of dormant mating drive has awakened in him because of Law, just because some… — Kaatosade Copy Share Image
The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“to study the ambitions and appetites of a family launched upon the modern world, making superhuman efforts but always failing because of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Hold your dreams tight, my friend. Share them with no one. And when the naysayers and the scoffers of the world aren't… — Kirt J. Boyd Copy Share Image
I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style.… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
“I looked for themes and underlying principles across lectures,” and “I went over mistakes until I was certain I understood them.” They… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Woe betides anyone getting in the way of people that keep on muddying the waters, throwing up smoke screens and clouding issues,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing.… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
“People need to know if they're making progress toward the goal or simply marking time. Their motivation to perform a task increases… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
I try to find motivation every single day, every single game, however I can get it. You always want to play with… — Dillon Brooks Copy Share Image
“That was actually my motivation for creating Bigger Leaner Stronger: For many years now, I’ve had friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers approach… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings… — Boomer Esiason Copy Share Image
By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a… — Rob Hopkins Copy Share Image
“We parents are an extension of our children, not the other way around. We are their conscience until it becomes their responsibility… — Larry Tanner Copy Share Image
I was going to do a big radio show, and I said to my driver, 'Radio can wait, take me to the… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Ever since my early teens, I've tried to swing the driver very fast. Back then, it was as fast as I could.… — Xander Schauffele Copy Share Image
“In the basal forebrain there is something called the nucleus accumbens. It is a part of the brain’s reward system and has… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
“We get in and I start the car. “Are you going to be good to Lani?” I ask. I think of Tommy… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
“It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
