Motivation Quotations

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

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

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

I'm 53, and it's hard to get to the gym every day. If I know on Friday I'm going to be wrestling, then I don't want to look bad, so it gives me motivation. Plus, once you're in motion, it's a lot easier to stay in motion.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.