Most Motivating Quotes

#1. Also - and many might find this the most motivating factor - couples who share domestic responsibilities have more sex.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. The happiest times in our lives are times when we are thinking the most motivating, intelligent and productive thoughts.

Nicki Joy

#3. The best definition of profit I've ever heard is that it is the applause you get for satisfying your customers and creating a motivating environment for your people.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#4. Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

Eraldo Banovac

#5. I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

Leander Paes

#6. I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.

Luke Evans

#7. The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

Larry Flynt

#8. When I look at all the people that I have working for me and the company I've started and all the people that benefit from it and have a living because of it, it's very motivating to continue to do it.

Chelsea Handler

#9. The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.

Robert B. Cialdini

#10. You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Ralph Steadman

#11. If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

Sheryl Crow

#12. It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.

Richard Branson

#13. Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

Tony Blair

#14. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

David Nicholls

#15. Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#16. Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.

Edwin Meese

#17. Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Frank Herbert

#18. There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

Daley Thompson

#19. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.

Shawn Johnson

#20. The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

Peter L. Bernstein

#21. I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

Paul Bloom

#22. You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering is the only way to find themselves.

Vishwas Mudagal

#23. NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Neil Armstrong

#24. I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

Rick Pitino

#25. There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#26. I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

John Cleese

#27. What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Al Ries

#28. Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Morton Blackwell

#29. Today and onwards, I stand proud, for the bridges I've climbed, for the battles I've won, and for the examples I've set, but most importantly, for the person I have become. I like who I am now, finally, at peace with me...

Heather James

#30. The most awful hunger is the type that is satisfied too soon, before it moves you, before you are moved by it, before it becomes protracted and superior, a motivating business, making you honorable, graceful, clever - a hunter.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#31. Most people who stay do it because they're afraid to leave, and most people who leave do it because they're afraid to stay. If you stop and think about it you'll find that fear is the motivating factor for most decisions people make in their lives

Tawni O'Dell

#32. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.

John McCain

#33. I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

Jason Statham

#34. Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.

Bear Bryant

#35. In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

Natalie Massenet

#36. Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice

Kate Morton

#37. The possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.

Herman Cain

#38. Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.

Joshua Ferris

#39. The leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.

Steven B. Sample

#40. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Donny Deutsch

#41. I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Madonna Ciccone

#42. One of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

Kristin Hunter

#43. Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

Ralph Fiennes

#44. I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

Karen Lewis

#45. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

#46. You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.

Tony Dorsett

#47. All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct.

Thorne Smith

#48. I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

Mike Weir

#49. Inspiration is everywhere.

Charlotte Eriksson

#50. Spending a few moments right when you wake up to inspire and motivate yourself can make all the difference in the rest of your day.

Daniel Willey

#51. Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#52. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.

Steve Knox

#53. I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

Katie Couric

#54. But I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out of the great cultural conversation because I had not been initiated into the mystery.

Carlene Bauer

#55. I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

Joel Osteen

#56. 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

#57. My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.

Jennie Garth

#58. I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate ... but I don't have ... a central cause ... a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be ... other than trying to tell the truth when I work.

Jennifer Beals

#59. The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.

Cheryl Richardson

#60. In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair

George Monbiot