Motivation Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.

I always ask myself, what do I need to prove? I won the fight.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.

"You will accomplish a lot more with movement than you will with motivation." So MOVE. Create action. Make plans and stick to them. But above all: Cut Out The Input, And Begin The Output.

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.

You're still my idol.

Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

You can either take it as a way to motivate yourself or be happy with what you've got.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.