Top 100 A Motivation Quotes
#2. What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other's minds.
Thomas Suddendorf
#3. Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Anita Desai
#4. Fear isn't what it appears to be,
it's a motivation that sets us free,
keep scratching, chewing and kicking me,
waiting for that moment in time to flee,
when it erupts in disbelief,
when it's exposed and we let it be,
without its hold it has no meaning.
Jess "Chief" Brynjulson
#5. Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.
Ryan Lilly
#6. 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
#7. Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make a difference in our lives here and now.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#8. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
Marianne Williamson
#9. I remember an aunt saying sagely, "The good die young." Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.
Connie Willis
#10. There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley
#11. We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.
Jayson Engay
#12. But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.
Randy Alcorn
#13. In fact, there is no such thing as grudging obedience. For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.
Jerry Bridges
#14. I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
Simon Beaufoy
#15. The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
Franz Kafka
#16. In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
Barry Sanders
#17. Many diets and fitness plans use guilt as a motivation, but that never works in the long run.
Rick Warren
#18. Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.
Geoffrey Wood
#19. Hope is a motivation for pressing ahead, a sustained effort and a joy that the promised will be fulfilled at the right time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#21. It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.
Earl Nightingale
#22. Great people faced obstacles in the pursuit of their dreams.The struggles was a motivation to stretch their limits. Be inspired by the story of great people. Know that you are not alone in your struggle.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. As a motivation - for humans, but Christians especially - guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.
Geoffrey Wood
#24. It's the same thing: I would think, "If I can't go out and pull some teenager tonight, maybe I'm no good on stage anymore." And you start to think that you even need it as a motivation. I did, anyway.
Iggy Pop
#25. But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
Mark Rylance
#26. If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
Michele Bachmann
#27. The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.
Tyler Cowen
#29. For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
James Russell Lowell
#30. I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.
Chris Albrecht
#31. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.
Graham Speechley
#33. You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.
Chalene Johnson
#35. He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing
Chang-rae Lee
#36. 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
#37. It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.
Vik Muniz
#38. But it appeared that the motivation for the project was a newspaper article titled 'Research Proves Kids Need a Mom and a Dad.' Someone had written the word 'crap' in red beside the article. It was an excellent start. Scientists need to cultivate a suspicious attitude to research.
Graeme Simsion
#39. A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.
Kemmons Wilson
#40. Just like a flower, you are a creation of unique beauty from the one essence of life.
Sharon Kirstin
#41. I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.
Joe Calzaghe
#42. I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight.
Tony Robbins
#43. Motivation is a fine example of social complexity. It is nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable. It cannot be defined or modeled with a single diagram.
Jurgen Appelo
#44. People will tell you what to do. Don't listen them. Do what is right and what you love. Ultimately they would have to agree with you. Be a trend setter
Laksh Kishore
#45. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.
Claire Messud
#46. If Chisora wants to kiss me, OK, if he likes me so much, but the best answer for him will be an answer with a fist in the ring.
Vitali Klitschko
#47. I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.
Wladimir Klitschko
#49. When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.
Alvi Syahrin
#50. ... always hold your heads high like a sunflower that stretches toward the light."
Childrens' book 'Land of Sunshine
Malene Rossau
#51. WINNER:is A Runner who Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent
Runners!
Sujit Lalwani
#52. My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
S.A. Tawks
#53. 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
#54. I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left side of his chin]. So it kind of messes with my speech a little bit, so don't y'all think that I took too many cos I haven't.
Roy Jones Jr.
#55. Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.
Aman Jassal
#56. I prepare for my fights to well that I don't wanna give a chance to my opponent to crash my 'glass chin' as they say, so I'm knocking them in the way that I like.
Wladimir Klitschko
#57. To write is to release the soul. So write. What right have we to leave a thing of such beauty bottled within ourselves?
Brian A. McBride
#58. It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.
Johnny Miller
#59. If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
Calvin Coolidge
#60. 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
#61. I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!
Donny Osmond
#62. 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
#63. A bad life doesn't justify bad behavior. It's time to stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for your own actions. You have control of your life from here.
Blaque Diamond
#64. As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have the idea that you can find a colour that is better for one composer or another, even if it's an illusion, this generates enormous pleasure.
Maurizio Pollini
#65. Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.
Stephen C. Lundin
#66. NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
Buzz Aldrin
#67. Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.
Robert Kirkman
#68. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
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#69. Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.
Gudjon Bergmann
#71. Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.
Bernard Hopkins
#72. We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
Stephen Levine
#73. [T]he unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers.
Neil Shubin
#74. Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.
Zig Ziglar
#76. My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.
Scott Herman
#77. In a sense, we here at the FSRI are like giant wizards at the controls of an incredible machine, operating levers and buttons from behind a great tapestry to provide you with the level of motivation and direction necessary for you to succeed!
Martin Fossum
#78. When you think positively, you attract divine forces for a positive lifestyle.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
David Halberstam
#80. 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
#82. Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
Cindy Chupack
#83. Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
David Frawley
#85. He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.
Carl Froch
#86. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald J. Trump
#87. You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.
Stella Adler
#88. Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business ... I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle.
Adrien Broner
#89. Don't think too small about what God could do in your life - be prepared for God to do a big thing.
Stormie O'martian
#90. It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.
Brenden Morrow
#91. House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#92. When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life's journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.
Anuj
#93. Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.
Jane Goodall
#94. Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.
Edna Adan Ismail
#96. One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.
Josette Sheeran
#97. My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.
Janine Di Giovanni
#98. If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
Bernard Hopkins
#100. The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.
S.D. Gordon
