Lack Motivation Quotes

#1. Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.

Frederick Lenz

#3. You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success - and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.

Marcia Conner

#4. A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Jonathan Kozol

#5. He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?

The Beatles

#6. There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.

Paul Watson

#7. I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.

Julia Glass

#8. I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Our lives reflect our inner image. If we think we're worth it, that worth will manifest in our lives. If we think we're not worthy, we'll live in lack. Believe your worth it and you will become worth it.

Toni Sorenson

#10. I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.

Tom Riley

#11. Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.

T.F. Hodge

#12. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Terry Bradshaw

#13. What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Miles Anthony Smith

#14. The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

Tracy Chevalier

#15. A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.

Marsha M. Linehan

#16. Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#17. Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it.

Santosh Kalwar

#18. As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. The most common reasons teams or individuals underperform are: Lack of clarity and focus Lack of ability Lack of confidence Lack of direction Lack of motivation

Anonymous

#20. Get out of your own way ... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself.

Steve Maraboli

#21. 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

#22. While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Dorothy Denning

#23. Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

Nate Silver

#24. If you are always saying I'll do it to tomorrow, than your tomorrow will than turn into another day and so on, and so, etc. etc.

Victoria Addino

#25. 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

#26. Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.

Mitch Kapor

#27. Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#28. Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

Randall Dale Adams

#29. A lack of real love for ourselves is one of the most constricting, painful conditions we can know.

Sharon Salzberg

#30. When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

Ma Jun

#31. We seem to take notice of our body only when health is lacking. With that lack of recognition comes a lack of motivation and incentive to stretch.

Rand Olson

#32. What I lack in skill and motivation I make up for in delusions of grandeur.

Mira Gonzalez

#33. As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

Robert Genn

#34. Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

Tony Robbins

#35. Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Brian Tracy

#36. It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

Gudjon Bergmann