Quotes of: Motive Keyword

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

Vikram Seth

I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.

John Caudwell

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Robert Crumb

Too often, many people choose goals that are not inspiring and empowering to them. Goals that has no true meaning to them, not coming from within but from the ideas and opinions from others to build their dreams. This often leads to frustration and d...

EnjoyLife 360 - Simple Secrets to a Happier Fulfilling Life!

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact: the standards of behavior are still those of kind and quantity, the security sought is still the...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinclined to alcoholism. Alcohol will slightly raise the ...

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.

Columbine

In this neighbourhood people don't venture out after dark. It's not safe for them. Only the terminally stupid and the criminally motivated come out at this hour.

Crossroads

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

Ethical Motivations

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

Martina Navratilova

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Your mind is the vehicle to success, fuel it with fresh motivation daily to optimize your drive.

44 Days of Leadership

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Anna Karenina

Don’t make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don’t make decisions when you are nervous or upset.

The Secrets of Business

Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

Look into the stillness

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

Leaders' Watchwords