Motivation Quotes

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

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.

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

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.

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

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

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

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

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

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

You're still my idol.

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.

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

"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.

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.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

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

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.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

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.

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.

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

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

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

I've got extra motivation that I won't talk about right now.

Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.

The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.

We are designed for Giving

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.

The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.

Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.