Motivation Quotes

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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].

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.

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.

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.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

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.

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 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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed for eight rounds.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.

I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always self-motivation.

I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

When you're younger, you go out and you're convivial because you have to be. But once you don't have to meet people anymore, what's your motivation in going out?

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

In order to find, you must first search.

A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

Honestly, my number-one motivation is my family.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Get Julian Jackson in here baby!...Julian Jackson, winner take all baby, that's all I gotta say, winner take all! Arghhh!

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.