Top 100 Human Motivation Quotes
#1. In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.
Eric Kandel
#3. The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
Aga Khan IV
#4. How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?
Vernor Vinge
#5. Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow
#6. Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
Tom Peters
#7. Vengeance is a strange human motivation
it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
H. Beam Piper
#8. The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.
Alister E. McGrath
#9. Research has shown that of all forms of human motivation the most effective one is progress. Why? Because a small, concrete win creates momentum and affirms our faith in our further success.
Greg McKeown
#10. getting clear about the right categories with which to understand human motivation, is an important practical task.
Simon Blackburn
#12. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#13. Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.
Tom Giaquinto
#14. Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death.
Vera Caspary
#15. Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.
Peter Shepherd
#17. The ultimate resources are EMOTIONAL STATES:
Creativity, decisiveness, passion, honesty, sincerity, love
these are the ultimate human resources and when you engage these resources you can get any other resource on earth.
Tony Robbins
#18. Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.
Amit Kalantri
#19. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.
Rory Sutherland
#20. Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.
Rebecca Saxe
#22. Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#23. Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#24. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
Philip Zaleski
#26. The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
Milton H. Erickson
#27. Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.
Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.
Akash Lakhotia
#28. A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#29. Using love as a bait and replacing respect with ego-pampering makes you a skillful social animal; unfortunately, all kinds of animals are less evolved than human beings. Would you like to evolve?
Saurabh Sharma
#31. They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
Sebastian Faulks
#32. He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.
David Haye
#33. Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.
Edna Adan Ismail
#34. Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes.
Amit Kalantri
#35. Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
Karen DeCrow
#36. Religion is a natural phenomenon of the human mind, but today, in the hands of theoretical bloodsucking religious preachers it has become a lifeless mockery. Now is the time that you take back religion from those intellectual idiots and place it where it belongs, in the temple of your inner cosmos.
Abhijit Naskar
#38. Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.
Frank Warren
#40. Love and Divinity are both gifts from Nature, fraught with the highest bliss.
Abhijit Naskar
#41. The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.
Geoff Mulgan
#42. Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#43. There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Walter E. Williams
#44. There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can't just write poems. We have to put poems into action.
Jeremiah Walton
#45. Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.
Dalai Lama
#46. Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.
Amit Kalantri
#47. I'm not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it's how you handle those challenges that truly matter.
Kathryn Perez
#48. What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.
Richard Preston
#49. The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.
Roberts Liardon
#50. The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission.
Daisaku Ikeda
#51. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#52. If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#53. No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.
Urie Bronfenbrenner
#54. People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim Carrey
#55. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.
Dalai Lama
#56. You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.
Amit Kalantri
#57. The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.
Amit Kalantri
#59. For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.
Amit Kalantri
#60. I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.
Norman Lock
#61. I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.
Sarah Kay
#62. If we are what we repeatedly do, how many times did you express gratitude today? Showing that you're grateful is the only way to be a grateful human being. Saying the words is not enough; you have demonstrate it through deeds.
Toni Sorenson
#63. Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet.
Amit Kalantri
#64. There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.
Amit Kalantri
#65. Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.
Amit Kalantri
#66. If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.
Elif Safak
#67. Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#68. Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.
Charles Murray
#69. My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.
Vanna Bonta
#70. Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast.
John Piper
#71. Human beings are not primarily thinking creatures. We are creatures driven by our loves.
Matt Chandler
#72. First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#73. [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
James Nachtwey
#74. People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.
Amit Kalantri
#77. The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
Abraham Verghese
#78. ..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get.
Meraaqi
#79. Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish.
Amit Kalantri
#80. The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.
Dr. Brian Goldman
#81. Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.
Amit Kalantri
#82. The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.
John Shelby Spong
#83. The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.
Alexander Hamilton
#84. Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#85. The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Margaret Halsey
#86. In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism
Amit Kalantri
#87. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.
Kurt Vonnegut
#88. There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.
Amit Kalantri
#89. Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.
Amit Kalantri
#90. In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#91. Each of us has an innate, human desire to be challenged. We are driven by it, and we often learn from our experiences to set a target and hit it. Even if we don't reach our intended goal or destination, we gain strength in trying.
Michelle McCullough
#92. The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed.
Abraham H. Maslow
#93. The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.
Alexander Tsiaras
#94. I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.
Keith Barry
#95. I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness.
Now that is what you call a true confession!
Saurabh Sharma
#97. The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#98. If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.
Amit Kalantri
#99. It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Eric Hoffer
#100. Throughout our history human beings have conducted and practiced all kinds of rituals and activities with the motivation of obtaining peace. We have fought wars in the name of achieving peace because we are under the illusion that peace is something external, something to be obtained.
Saunsea
