A Good Motivation Quotes

#1. I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.

Dalai Lama

#2. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

Dalai Lama

#3. 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.

Julianne Hough

#4. If you have the audience, that is good, that gives you a good motivation! If you don't have the audience, that is good, that gives you a good motivation to try to have some!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.

Bill Bryson

#6. Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

Auliq Ice

#7. Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)

Suzanne Selfors

#8. Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.

Clayton Christensen

#9. Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

Sharon Weil

#10. Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.

Wallace Stegner

#11. Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

Tom Giaquinto

#12. It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Mike Tyson

#13. The biggest hack a motivation hacker can perform is to build her confidence to the size of a volcano. An oversized eruption of Expectancy can incinerate all obstacles in the path to any goal when you combine it with good planning. Value

Nick Winter

#14. You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.

Lou Lamoriello

#15. All that a child needs is a great love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Nobody wants to die!
So why do people let themselves go?
Why kill yourself off?
Stop and think, get fit and strong!
Even a good shag will burn the calories off and pump your heart!
There is no excuse - you know it!

Charles Bronson

#17. There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

Tom Wolfe

#18. If you find a need, reach out to help.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Roger Federer

#20. Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

Sara Sheridan

#21. Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.

Jon Katz

#22. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Rory Sutherland

#23. I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

Hermann Maier

#24. It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.

Sergio Martinez

#25. 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.

Rebecca Saxe

#26. Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

James Sallis

#27. A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Joseph Joubert

#28. Reading a good book keeps me awake all night.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat ... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

Bill Bradley

#30. I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.

Joe Calzaghe

#31. A dream is just as good, and will go as far as an action.

Anthony Liccione

#32. Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment
it only makes me work harder.

Missy Giove

#33. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.

Steve Goodier

#34. I remember an aunt saying sagely, "The good die young." Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.

Connie Willis

#35. Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.

Justin Trudeau

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

Franz Stampfl

#37. As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religios one.

Dalai Lama XIV

#38. It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

Sheryl Swoopes

#39. I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

Markus Wolf

#40. To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

David Bowie

#41. I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.

Bernard Hopkins

#42. A door shuts in my face, but my face is already looking at another door, wondering when that one will close too and how many good things I would have gotten out of it when it does.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#43. Every tree is known by its fruits. So a man is known his deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Tom Landry

#45. A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

Michael Johnson

#46. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect.

Peace Pilgrim

#47. Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

Elon Musk

#48. I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices.

James Maslow

#49. For people to be happy in life, two factors are crucial: One is good interpersonal relationships and the second is a feeling of productivity. That feeling feeds motivation.

Peter A. Spevak

#50. It is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...

Vedang Sati

#51. His motivation was to rattle the good people of Greenwich mean time, have them raise their heads from their tea and scones, and say, Oh, yes. Africa. For a fleeting moment they'd have the same awareness of us that we had of them.

Abraham Verghese

#52. I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#53. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.

Roopleen

#54. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

Gustav Nossal

#55. Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

Atwood H. Townsend

#56. If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say.

Tim Kirkland

#57. My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#58. At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

Michael Strahan

#59. You must be a light unto yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#60. Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did.

Keke Palmer

#61. Love is an active word.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?

Ronnie Shanks

#63. It is a sacred gladness for us to celebrate the holy birth of Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#64. Whatever phase of life you are in, make time to pause and reflect where you are heading to. It is a good time to insert a comma now and realign yourself to your inner self before your life ends in a full stop.

Roopleen

#65. People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.

Marilyn Suttle

#66. I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here? Where should I put the camera?" Or, "What's my motivation?" And I would say, "Do whatever you want!"

Christopher Walken

#67. My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

Mandy Patinkin

#68. While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

Warren Farrell

#69. Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.

Mufti Ismail Menk

#70. I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

Joe Calzaghe

#71. He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

David Halberstam

#72. We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

Narendra Modi

#73. My motivation in life was to be a good enough man for her, worthy of her awesomeness.

Jasinda Wilder

#74. Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams.

Toni Sorenson

#75. I don't guarantee you to be a good man,
I promise you will be a better man

Unknown

#76. Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.

Amit Kalantri

#77. What a wonderful life; to be blessed with many sacred brothers and sisters?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

C.S. Lewis

#79. It's easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#80. Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor being a good person guarantees success... the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.

Phil Laut

#81. A product is only as good as the process it passed through.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#82. Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

Cameron Sinclair

#83. It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great fighter and it's up to one person's interpretation to who is actually the best.

Joe Calzaghe

#84. I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

Dot Richardson

#85. The most valuable gift you can give to humanity is a good example.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#86. Leaders think it's possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them!

Israelmore Ayivor

#87. Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was good, spiritually fruitful, to discover that the question "What went wrong in where I came from?" is actually not a useful one.

James Alison

#88. I'd believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others - but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

Aspen Matis

#89. People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

John C. Maxwell

#90. In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

Rafael Nadal

#91. Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.

Jenna McCarthy

#92. I've travelled around the world, I've lived in Germany, I've lived in the United States, I've visited many countries, I can question why such a good country, such huge potential, why we don't develop in the right way.

Vitali Klitschko

#93. I am a good bitch on wheels when given the right motivation.

Maya Banks

#94. No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.

Sergio Martinez

#95. You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

Joan Reardon

#96. There is a beautiful village in every country.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#97. You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Jim Butcher

#98. If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#99. My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

Damien Chazelle

#100. It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Alain De Botton