Motivation Quotes

I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.