Motivation Crisis Quotes

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.

When you have been working so hard to reach a specific goal and then you realise that ambition, it's not always easy to raise yourself for another objective.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?