Be Motivated Quotes

#1. The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire - the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.

Paul O'Brien

#2. have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on."14

Brad Stone

#3. I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways!

James May

#4. There should be exit interviews for dating. Just a brief evaluation of the highlights and challenges of the relationship, and maybe a few questions like "So what exactly was it that motivated you to dump me?

Devan Sipher

#5. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#6. It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.

David Letterman

#7. To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated .

Osunsakin Adewale

#8. Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

Sarah Thornton

#9. All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#10. I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#11. I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Christina Aguilera

#12. Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

Carroll Quigley

#13. 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

#14. Don't be managed by the likelihood of mishaps. Be motivated by the promise of favor!

Carlos Wallace

#15. I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Jon Scieszka

#16. You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?

Napoleon Hill

#17. Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

Yasmin Mogahed

#18. There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

John Krasinski

#19. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

J.D. Roth

#20. Of course when she finally found someone that listened to her, understood her, and was motivated by her to do better with himself, he had to be a vampire that was sent to kill her and then her father.

Inger Iversen

#21. Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough ... The vital thing is not to maximize everyone's performance, but to ensure maximal performance from the most talented, the ones who can make a difference.

William A. Henry III

#22. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

John Braithwaite

#23. I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#24. I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

Magdi Yacoub

#25. Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

Auberon Waugh

#26. People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

Richard Saul Wurman

#27. I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

Buzz Aldrin

#28. 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

#29. I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

Jordan Spieth

#30. It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Stephen R. Covey

#31. I tend to be ... they say 'workaholic,' which I just find to be 'motivated.'

Sarah Hay

#32. The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

Mary Engelbreit

#33. To be motivated by divine love is for everything to be possible

Sunday Adelaja

#34. Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

Sebastian Vettel

#35. Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Tyler Cowen

#36. For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

R.C. Sproul

#37. Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

Philip Kitcher

#38. Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

#39. I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.

Emily Susan Rapp

#40. Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.

Nabil N. Jamal

#41. Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

Eva Longoria

#42. The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Jeff Bezos

#43. To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

Johnny Rich

#44. To remain motivated, be deaf to people who keep saying to you that it can't be done.

Amey Hegde

#45. The cross was not motivated out of sense of love for what we are, but what we could be only by His grace.

Jeremy J. Lundmark

#46. But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

Mike Schmidt

#47. To be motivated by divine love is to begin to view the world in its brilliant technicolor

Sunday Adelaja

#48. It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To

Sam Harris

#49. Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.

Richard Branson

#50. Most people who spew hatred aren't very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.

Damien Echols

#51. Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream."
Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

Stephen Baxter

#52. people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.

Robert B. Cialdini

#53. When you motivate others to be healthy, you can't help being motivated too.

Denise Austin

#54. I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

Dan Marino

#55. You can't be what I call selectively motivated, where you can only work hard and smart when things are going well.

Carla Harris

#56. A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.

Timothy Gowers

#57. To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

Karen Kain

#58. I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

Dara Torres

#59. We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Buzz Aldrin

#60. People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.

N. T. Wright

#61. For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

Ricardo Semler

#62. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

Buenaventura Durruti

#63. People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

Siouxsie Sioux

#64. So great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

Seth Godin

#65. There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

Henry Hazlitt

#66. No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!

Amit Chatterjee

#67. You have to want it. Not kind of want it, but really want it, and be motivated to take action. Only then does the future pull you towards it. You won't have to push yourself as much, but you will be attracted to what you want.

Charles Jensen

#68. You MUST do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated.

Faydra D. Fields

#69. Don't be afraid to show emotion. Get excited, get angry, get motivated, laugh, cry, yell, and vent. You will feel so much better after a great release.

Robert Cheeke

#70. It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.

Paul David Tripp

#71. The Product Backlog will not motivate your team. You need to paint the picture of why they should be motivated. You

Greg Cohen

#72. I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

Guy Ritchie

#73. Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

Magnus Scheving

#74. Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

Andrea Riseborough

#75. Be confident. Be successful. Be
beautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.
Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Be
educated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just be
you!

Russell Strand

#76. I love it when people say that something can't be done. That's when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#77. The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

Brian Tracy

#78. Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Michael Morpurgo

#79. 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

#80. My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital to human beings. Even my appreciation for wilderness grows out of an understanding of how important wilderness can be for people.

Tim DeChristopher

#81. We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#82. Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Linus Torvalds

#83. If you are targeting the right customers they will be more motivated by value than price.

Carlos Castillo

#84. There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Dean Koontz

#85. Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

Ruth Simmons

#86. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

Shannon L. Alder

#87. If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

Al Yankovic

#88. I CHOOSE to live by choice not by chance, to be motivated not manipulated, to be useful not used, to make change not excuses, to excel not compete. I CHOOSE self-esteem not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, NOT TO LISTEN TO THE RANDOM OPINIONS OF OTHERS.

Auliq Ice

#89. I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

Bonnie Tyler

#90. False prophets are not motivated by love, but are motivated by a need to be noticed.

Kris Vallotton

#91. The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#92. I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

Dana Goldstein

#93. Vin didn't consider herself to be either self-assured or self-motivated. Still, she saw no point in asking why. Life had taught her that sometimes things simply happened.

Brandon Sanderson

#94. You have it within your power to simplify your situation. Just be sure that every decision you make, every choice you make, is motivated by love. If you do that, what is meant to be will be.

Emily March

#95. When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

Wendy Kopp

#96. I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

Zach Galifianakis

#97. if you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away. The right people don't need to be tightly managed or fired up; they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great.

James C. Collins

#98. - Hitler said that people are not motivated by, "sound reasoning but by emotions and feelings." He must have been right for it's the only thing that explains how stupid people can be. However I have been one of those people. Admit

Charles Gilbert

#99. Be motivated like the falcon,
hunt gloriously.
Be magnificent as the leopard,
fight to win.
Spend less time with
nightingales and peacocks.
One is all talk,
the other only color.

Rumi

#100. "On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."

John Hickenlooper