Motivation Quotes

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

You are what you think about all day.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

Don't dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

I think it's my motivation and my dedication to prove everyone wrong whenever they tell me I can't do something.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

Your problems are never bigger than your purpose.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.