Top 100 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. As far as I am concerned, any deed done with good motivation is a religios one.
Dalai Lama XIV
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
Julia Roberts
#6. Whether it is preached from good motivation or bad, Word is what "works," not the messenger.
Paul Silway
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.
Arthur Lydiard
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.
Max Walker
#14. It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.
Dana Hill
#23. You have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.
Amy Tan
#24. 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
#26. 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
#27. What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.
Anson Dorrance
#28. I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.
Tony Dungy
#29. There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.
Tom Wolfe
#30. You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us.
Manny Pacquiao
#32. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
Jean Van Hamme
#33. 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
#34. Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.
Sara Sheridan
#36. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.
Noel DeJesus
#37. 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
#38. The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately NOT AS GOOD AS someone who is stimulated by PASSION and INTERNAL WILL
Sebastian Vettel
#39. That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
Melinda Gates
#42. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.
Rory Sutherland
#43. You can't be much good to others, if you're no good to yourself.
Carlos Wallace
#44. The Dragonfly Charm
Embrace The Magic of Nature & Life Will Be Filled with Good Fortune
Viola Shipman
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Every day is a good day and every moment is an auspicious moment.
Amit Ray
#50. Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
Elizabeth Inchbald
#52. 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.
Abraham Maslow
#53. Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God's special possession.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. 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
#56. The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. 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
#58. Many of us learned to repress our creativity. We were told it was secondary to more important skills. The good news is that many of us have untapped gifts just waiting to be expressed. You owe it to yourself to uncover and express your gifts
Renae A. Sauter
#59. Yesterday is never as good as right now so enjoy every moment of the journey into TOMORROW.
C. Smith
#60. There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.
Noel DeJesus
#62. I don't care where people come from. It is not important to me. If you are good people will like you, if you're not, they won't. It is simple.
Wladimir Klitschko
#63. 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
#64. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.
Laozi
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. I remember an aunt saying sagely, "The good die young." Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.
Connie Willis
#70. 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
#71. With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.
Franz Stampfl
#72. If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. 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
#75. No idea, no matter how good, will work if it doesn't get used.
Peter A. Cohen
#77. In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.
Robert Heller
#78. You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz
#80. Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.
Butch Harmon
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.
Bernard Hopkins
#84. God Almighty, I don't want to ask for more. But to say more thanks.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. You're so good at what you do, keep pushing, success is on the table at all times!
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#86. 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
#87. Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
Chuck Close
#88. There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.
Roy Jones Jr.
#90. 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
#92. Positive and negative actions are determined by one's own motivation. If the motivation is good, all actions become positive; if the motivation is wrong, all actions become negative.
Dalai Lama XIV
#93. I was concerned about them. I mean, it feels good but I was concerned about them.
Roy Jones Jr.
#95. A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.
Michael Johnson
#96. 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
#97. Because we don't know the state of our children's souls, and because they might simply want to please us by praying to be saved, we must continue to give them the Law and encourage them to ask God for faith to believe that He is as good as He says He is.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#98. Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse
Connor George Serbin
#100. After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
Dan O'Brien
