Motivation Quotes

I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!' Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.

~ Bill Bryson

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

~ Marshall Mcluhan

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

~ Jim Butcher

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

~ Jack Campbell

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

~ Ken Robinson

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

~ Zig Ziglar

I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.

~ Tehmina Durrani

The power of can't: The word can't makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible, money is a bugaboo of small minds.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

~ Jim Butcher

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.

~ Doe Zantamata

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.

~ Joe Frazier

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

~ Charles Dickens

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

~ William Shakespeare

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Rejection is a challenge.

~ Veronica Purcell

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.

~ Stephen C. Lundin

Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with NO Regrets.

~ Randy Gonzales

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

~ Manny Pacquiao

Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness.

~ Ana Kostovska

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

~ Eric Hoffer

Where there is life, there is hope.

~ Alyson Noel

I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

~ William Paul Young

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders.

~ John Paul Warren

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

~ Bill Rodgers

If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.

~ Jessica Shirvington

Let your playerhaters be your motivators.

~ Alberta Parish

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

~ Leo Tolstoy

It's not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief.

~ Durgesh Satpathy

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

~ B.f. Skinner

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

~ Kyo Shirodaira

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity

~ Bo Bennett

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

~ Ernest Hemingway

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

~ Sandra Byrd

Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.

~ Darren Hardy

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

~ Homer Rice

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

~ Calvin Coolidge