Motivation Quotes

I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.

I don't care who wins, I'll fight either one of them. As a matter of fact, I'll fight them both on the same night if they want.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.'

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

If I'm like, 'Oh, this is not something that I want to do,' that means I have to do it. That's always a good motivation.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'

As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.