Motivation Quotes

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

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.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

Know the great men of your age.

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

View every problem as an opportunity.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

Trust your instincts, and take control.

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

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

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

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life.

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.