inherent motivation Quotes

Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.

Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

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.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.

If your goal has no inherent reward, you do not have a goal.