When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.
I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.
A negative past is only there to motivate you to start creating a future that's far better than it.
My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
