Motivation Quotes

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today.

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

It is a good life, if you're doing what you like doing.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

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

A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.

When you have worked this hard to get this far, don't let up because you finally got here. Finish with your heart and fulfill this moment the way you have dreamt of it for so long.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it's not about the W...It's everything about the W with me!

Regardless of anyone’s dietary motivations, the healthiest lifestyle is the one that’s most compassionate.

Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation

My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

People often say motivation doesn't last. But neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.

I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.