Motivation Quotes

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

~ Daniel H. Pink

Money is just an idea.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

~ Edward R. Murrow

Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.

~ Toba Beta

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

~ Denis Waitley

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

~ Dana Spiotta

Start even if you don't know how.

~ Wendy Tremayne

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

~ Muhammad Yunus

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.

~ John Paul Warren

Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that...

~ Gino Norris

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

~ Fennel Hudson

Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll.

~ Daniel H. Pink

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

~ Ravi Ravindra

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I made it greater,you always told me to forget the haters.

~ Knight Mayor

In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice. I wanted to be everything. And I took everything in, and the more you take in, the more strength you find waiting to accomplish things and to expand your life, instead of the other (which is what we have been taught to do) which is to look for structure and to fear change, above all to fear change. Now I didn't fear change.

~ Anaïs Nin

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

~ Jean Renoir

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The water doesn't know how old you are.

~ Dara Torres

…the worst thing said about him is that he was uncurious.

~ Yvon Chouinard

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

~ Amit Abraham

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

~ Frank Herbert

We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us

~ Sukant Ratnakar

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.

~ Marilyn Suttle

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.

~ Lorii Myers

You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

~ Joan Reardon

Here's how man thinks: If no one’s done it, why should I try? It’s a waste of time; but if he’s done it, I can do it better.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

~ Daniel H. Pink

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

~ Sebastian Horsley

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

~ Anthony Burgess

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

~ Robert Penn Warren

Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Raise the bar higher than your opinion...

~ Gino Norris

Ish #211 Your child is your parental obligation, not friend.

~ Regina Griffin

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

Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.

~ Kyo Shirodaira

To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.

~ Dan Ariely

If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

~ Lorii Myers