Motivation Quotes

Excellent is prasie worthy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.

~ Fennel Hudson

It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinball, with a giant shot of momentum. The feeling sometimes didn’t wear off until six or seven at night (when it was usually overtaken by the feeling that he was just bouncing haplessly from one situation to the next without any real purpose or direction).

~ Rainbow Rowell

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

~ Orson Scott Card

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

~ Leonard Sax

We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won’t be impressed. We can’t let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: ‘peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.’ With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It’s on us.

~ Ryan Holiday

I'm often called in as a coach and speaker to motivate staff, teams, the public and leaders. The key to this is simple; you cannot truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are...what motivates them...?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.

~ Ryan Lilly

Every TODAY has a better version, called TOMORROW.

~ Vikrmn

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

~ John Ruskin

Be careful how you live your life, millions are watching you. You may be inspiring or uninspiring many.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.

~ Amit Kalantri

Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock of isolation, begging the winds for inspiration, and it makes it something as do-able as picking up a hammer and pounding a nail. Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft. It is a simple and workable thing that can be as steady and reliable as a chore—does that ruin the romance?

~ Julia Cameron

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

~ Pat Riley

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.

~ Emanuel Cleaver

Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

~ Zendaya

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.

~ Michael Phelps

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

~ Paul Buchheit

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

~ Noël Coward

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

~ Tim Tebow

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

~ Edmund Hillary

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

~ Donald Norman

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

~ Michael Pena

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

~ Eminem

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

~ Ahmed Ben Bella

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.

~ Tony Parsons

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

~ Wayne Dyer

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.

~ Dorothy Denning

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

~ Donald Trump

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

~ Valentino Rossi

Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the Christian tradition but not often preached - is that you can't enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.

~ Thomas Keating

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

~ Cory Booker

If faith is your motivation, share that.

~ Tim Kaine

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

~ Carlos Ghosn

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

~ James Taylor

Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.

~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

~ Neil Armstrong

NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

~ Buzz Aldrin