Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.