Motivation Quotes

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

I’m not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.

I believe I'm a born winner. I always think about winning.

He's got one of the best chins I've ever hit in my life. I was catching him and he was smiling at me, he was eating them. He's a great fighter, he'll be champion one day.

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

You talk about me, I am chicken to fight you. That's not true. I bring you dessert on November 12th.

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life’s journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

"It gets better." - On his campaign against bullying.

I have the rematch that I wanted. I'm going to knockout a Mexican and I will reconquer my title

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't.

You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

It's the excitement of being on the frontier.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

Roy Jones still number one and it's gon' be that way baby! For all these doubters, him [points to Larry Merchant] and the rest of them that said Roy Jones is a fluke, now they know.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.