Quotes about Motivation

If you work to understand what job you are being hired to do, both professionally and in your personal life, the payoff will be enormous.

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live for.

The pleasure principle is an artificial creation of psychology. Pleasure is not the goal of our aspirations, but the consequence of attaining them.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." I can see in these words a motto which holds true for any psychotherapy. In the Nazi concentration camps, one could have witnessed that those who knew that there was a task waiting for them to fulfill were most apt to survive. The same conclusion has since been reached by other authors of books on concentration camps, and also by psychiatric investigations into Japanese, North Korean and North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camps.

As long as a man is still motivated either by the fear of punishment or by the hope of reward—or, for that matter, by the wish to appease the superego—conscience has not had its say as yet.

people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

If you want to stay alive, there is only one way: look fit for work.

Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how," as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared.

Nietzsche, "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

Whenever there was an opportunity for it, one had to give them a why—an aim—for their lives, in order to strengthen them to bear the terrible how of their existence.