Motivation Quotes

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit.

Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Nobody can say that I’m lazy in training.

I know what poverty is.

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

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.

Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'

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

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

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

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

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Faith is my motivation to win.

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

My motivation comes from playing the game I love.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

All work is easy work.

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.