Quotes of: Motive Keyword

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Edmund Hillary

But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously strengthening your belief that you need to feel motivated before you act. By encouraging an atta...

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

...the reward centers of the brain--where the pleasure of those high-calorie foods registers--also respond to other substances that bring about pleasure....But those reward centers also respond to other gratifying things, like watching a sunset or ex...

The Life You Want: Get Motivated, Lose Weight, and Be Happy

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, ...

Ten Second Staircase

People don't need to be paid to be motivated.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

Chasing the Dime

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

Donny Osmond

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

Corin Nemec

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Jeff Koons

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

James Taylor

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces.

Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

The Murder Room

Daily motivation is essential to recharge your spirit.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

Julian Clary

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Quentin Crisp

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

Rachel Griffiths

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Sasha Grey

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Sidney Hook

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.

Shawn Johnson