Values And Motivation Quotes

#1. There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.

Tony Hsieh

#2. Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

Thomas Ehrlich

#3. I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Cory Booker

#4. Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

George Leonard

#5. You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. 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

#7. A man is never more himself than when he is alone ... That is when the mask comes off. Shut the door, and the persona drops away. Alone, you reveal your soul.

J. Kenner

#8. Self-motivation becomes easier when we see our choices as affirmations of our deeper values and goals.

Charles Duhigg

#9. India and Fiji have many shared values, and it is the responsibility of both the countries to strengthen those values.

Narendra Modi

#10. When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.

Jerry Seinfeld

#11. When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love.

Sharon Weil

#12. For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

Richard Masur

#13. Motivation is like fire - unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values.

Shiv Khera

#14. When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.

Chris Matakas

#15. Such as I am, I am a precious gift.

Zora Neale Hurston

#16. Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.

David Ignatius

#17. When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life.

Chris Matakas

#18. You'll feel like Jesu Himself in the End Times, when He will descend on Rome with Augustus and Vespasian on His left and right hands, to establish the final dominion of the Caesars across the stars.

Stephen Baxter

#19. Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.

Chris Matakas

#20. Behind great discovery three values are the rudiments; inspiration , motivation and determination. To be a succesful general , you must be inspired, motivated and determined .

Osunsakin Adewale

#21. Whatever a man values, it is there you will find his resources. That which has no value to him, neither he nor his resources nor him will be present. Where can we find you?

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#22. That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.

Peter Van Uhm

#23. Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

Billy Collins

#24. Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.

Jamie Muir

#25. Fear is nature's caffeine

Karen Salmansohn

#26. In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.

John Dufresne

#27. Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

Atul Gawande

#28. Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

David Frawley

#29. Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

Bernard Hopkins

#30. Frustration mingled with despair in my
heart.

Laura Howard

#31. Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.

Christopher Babson