Intrisic Motivation Quotes

For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?
A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys. ~ Seneca.

Your future is brighter than your past was dark. ~ Toni Sorenson

I am the best author of my life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime ~ William Robson

Don't wait for anyone to bring you what you want, go out and get it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me? ~ Lemon Andersen

To be amazing means you have to do amazing things. ~ Idan Ravin

Be you. You are a holy-self. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill. ~ Munia Khan

Love is the fruit of a sacred-soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To behold is to believe. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time? ~ Graham Hill

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion. ~ Dalai Lama

Never tell the people who fooled you your secrets, for they will look like real fools in the future. ~ Julio Bonilla

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. ~ Unarine Ramaru

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark. ~ Stormie O'martian

Looking toward the future. It's as bright as you make it. ~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. ~ Tim Tebow

All glory comes from daring to begin ~ Eugene F. Ware

Technology, hardware, and capital can be copied easily. What can't be copied easily is the culture and human capacity that create those in the first place and does so in a way that engages not just functionally with people, but also emotionally so that people want what your organization offers. ~ Matt Perman

From the dream to mainstream...Do whatever is necessary to make your dream a reality. To get others to invest in you and your dreams you must be willing to invest in yourself. ~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Be your own motivation. ~ Jon Jones

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you. ~ Martin Yan

Altogether, these observations suggest that several processes contribute to psychotic experience: the loss of familiarity with the world, hypothetically associated with noisy information processing; increased novelty detection mediated by the hippocampus; associated alterations of prefrontal cortical processing, which have reliably been associated with impairments in working memory and other executive functions; increased top-down effects of prior beliefs mediated by the frontal cortex that may reflect compensatory efforts to cope with an increasingly complex and unfamiliar world; and finally disinhibition of subcortical dopaminergic neurotransmission, which increases salience attribution to otherwise irrelevant stimuli. Furthermore, increased noise of chaotic or stress-dependent dopamine firing can reduce the encoding of errors of reward prediction elicited by primary and secondary reinforcers, thus contributing to a subjective focusing of attention on apparently novel and mysterious environmental cues while reducing attention and motivation elicited by common and natural and social stimuli. ~ Andreas Heinz

Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you're fucking nuts. ~ David Goggins

David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk. ~ Vitali Klitschko

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed's control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was striving for in recovery was a real possibility. I thought about these experiences and used them as encouragement to keep moving forward. Even one minute of freedom was proof that I was getting better. At first, these times were few and far between. Now, these moments are connected; they are my life ~ Jenni Schaefer

Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior. ~ Emily Oster

When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded. ~ Michael Johnson

Life is a sacred breath. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think. ~ Kimi Raikkonen

Someone said that our goals keep us going, but it's our dreams that make us tick. So if you disconnect your goals from your dreams, don't be surprised if one morning you realize that your life is on autopilot. ~ Ray N. Kuili

Your Soul Family are those that are tuned in to your frequency. You sense a strong connection beyond blood or race; you're connected by energy and vibration. Through quantum communication, they intuitively answer your silent call and show up bringing unconditional love and support at the perfect times. You share an unspoken level of understanding … they just get you and what you're about. For those people, be thankful … they are your reminders from the Universe that on the deepest level of our existence we are one.

- Kianu Starr ~ Kianu Starr

Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk. ~ Brian D. McLaren