Quotes of: Motive Keyword

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I hav...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and...

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

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is ...

Sandra L. Schneider

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

Crime and Punishment

If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.

Embrace

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

A Familiar Rain

Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams!

The Book of Craigisms

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.

Beautiful Quotes

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

Damien Chazelle

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivated authors sacrifice TV time, sleep, hobbies, and even family time.

The Author's Blueprint

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

I, Robot

Motivation gets you going; Inspiration keeps you going.

Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Rebel Queen

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Motivation ignites a flame of fire within our spirit.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

CHALLENGE - Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong

Profound Vers-A-Tales

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Bruce Jackson

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

Daley Thompson

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Virat Kohli