Quotes about Motivation

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means 'inspired' or 'filled with the divine.

What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

Yeast will not only rise bread, but also the human spirit -Jim Carey

Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law. Each individual must govern himself, and for this morality was plainly necessary.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.