Motivation Quotes

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

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

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

Trust me when you love something you don't need motivation.

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

If you think your best days are behind you, they are. If you think your best days are ahead of you, they are.

Children ... smile as many as 400 times per day.

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

What keeps me going is goals.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.