Motivation Quotes

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

I think skateboarding is hugely challenging - it teaches you self-confidence, it teaches you self-motivation, and it can be something that helps you throughout your life.

Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.

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.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

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

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.

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.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

Impatience never commanded success.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

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

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.