Best motivation & consequence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.”

Home Motivation Bits Clear Terrible Behavior Consequence Tests Harder Motivated Buried Labs Bad Behavior Control Ourselves

Author:Ben Marcus

“Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.”

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Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.”

Thinking Action Motivation Asks Pleasure Habit Essentials Consequence Ridiculous Objectives Amusement Pastime Idiotic Alertness Thinking Ahead Alertness Is

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.”

“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.”

Years Stills Age Motivation Asks Enjoy Race Keys Training Consequence Track Motivated Racing Bike Gps

Author:Valentino Rossi

“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”

Pain Motivation Causes Enemy Fields Battle Degrees Consequence Defeat Acres

Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.”

Happiness Motivation Consequence Satisfaction Motive Accompany

Author:Joseph Butler

“Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.”

Motivational Motivation Choices Decision Consequence Areas Contracts Future Decisions

Book:Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney

Source: Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney

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