Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.
Learning Japanese was certainly a task, but my passion for the culture, as well as my will to communicate with fans and friends, always encouraged me to continue.
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.
I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.
The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.
The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?
Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.
A man lives by believing something.
I would like to see an animating passion. Tim Kaine actually had a good line. What animated you before you got into politics? And she actually does have a story there to tell about children. And so drawing that animating passion will do good.
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.
One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.
I think for me, I personally believe that's what God put me here to do, be an influence, be an inspiration to other people and help.
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.
I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.
