Highly Motivated Quotes

#1. If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans.

George Carlin

#2. In everything we do, in order to succeed, we must believe in ourselves; that we are highly motivated achievers.

Ellen J. Barrier

#3. For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Bill Gates

#4. Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Sydney Pollack

#5. A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!

Victoria Laurie

#7. The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

Trent Lott

#8. There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.

Gregory Stock

#9. Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#10. Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.

Sebastian Thrun

#11. Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

Denis Waitley

#12. Silicon Valley is not a perfect meritocracy, but it is open to all who are highly motivated. For example, there is a dearth of women, Hispanics, and African Americans in Silicon Valley.

Deborah Perry Piscione

#13. Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.

Philip Rosedale

#14. The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

George Carlin

#15. Forbes was highly motivated by Noynoy's words: ... Therefore in order to make this country better, you don't need grandiose platforms, all you have to do is to do your job, and do it well, rightly, and in accordance with the principled objective.

Wilfrido V. Villacorta

#16. The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

Andrew Keen

#17. He continued with a laugh, "And for highly motivated people, there are few more frustrating situations than realizing that the goals you've set will require a shift in the basic laws of time and space.

Eric C. Sinoway

#18. Capitalism is a system that works extremely well for someone who is highly motivated and very energetic, but it is not a great system for someone who is not interested in working hard or for someone who feels no need to contribute to the economic well-being of their community.

Ben Carson

#19. My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

James D. Watson

#20. Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

Dan Shechtman

#21. If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.

Roger Stone

#22. It is no longer necessary to resort to the power of a state in order to inflict heavy losses on your enemy, since a few highly motivated individuals with even a minimum of financial resources are enough."Hostile Forces" have completely changed their appearance.

Tzvetan Todorov

#23. 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

#24. Successful people are often times highly motivated people.

Jon Jones

#25. Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Nigel Crouch

#26. A reward-sensitive person is highly motivated to seek rewards - from a promotion to a lottery jackpot to an enjoyable evening out with friends. Reward sensitivity motivates us to pursue goals like sex and money, social status and influence.

Susan Cain

#27. Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

Fleur Adcock

#28. Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.

B.J. Neblett

#29. It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

Adam Fletcher

#30. I'm talking about the number of privileged, highly intelligent, motivated career-track people that I know, from my high school or college, who are, if you look into their eyes, empty and miserable.

David Lipsky

#31. Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

William Howard Taft

#32. Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.

Dave Eggers

#33. Sometimes just explaining your predicament--to a bartender, a priest, the old woman in a shift and flip-flops cleaning the lint traps in the Laundromat dryers--is all it takes to see a way out of it.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#34. The wrong kind of needing is the wrong kind of loving.

Dorothy A. Taggart

#35. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal.

Swami Vivekananda

#36. You're much too pretty to be bloody.

Courtney Cole

#37. But the heart weakens without democracy, and there was no democracy within the Tigers. They antagonized their own brothers by killing them.

Samanth Subramanian

#38. Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Paul Ryan

#39. Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

Alex Ferguson

#40. If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

Karin Slaughter

#41. Tea and water give each other life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water vitality.

Jason Goodwin

#42. Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least taken the time to touch my face.

Franny Billingsley