Motivation Quotes

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

The best motivation is self-motivation.

Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

I find motivation anytime I need it, no matter how bad I’m hurting I can push through anything

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

You expect success, you respect failure.

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people you would lead.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

I don't aim for money. Money never has or will be my motivation. I

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

With will one can do anything.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.