Motivation Quotes

Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well.

But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Every day in every way we are leaving our mark.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

I seek to fight the best out there. I seek to fight the champions in every division I go up to.

He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.

I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.

I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.

In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.