It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.
All emanates from Source!. . . You're not this body and its accomplishments. You are the observer. Notice it all; and be grateful for the abilities you've been given, the motivation to achieve, and the stuff you've accumulated. But give all the credit to the power of intention, which brought you into existence.
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. . . . You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.
That was probably the most important fight of my career. . . he was this crazy guy, who acted like most adults that I knew as a kid, and I knew right away by him being so crazy and wild and quick tempered, I was gonna get under his skin and aggravate the heck out of him. And that's exactly what I did.
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy?
One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser. ' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history. '
I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.
I don't benefit by minimizing his accomplishments Andre Ward.
Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.
"It gets better. " - On his campaign against bullying.
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.
For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.
People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.