Top 100 Motivates Quotes
#1. One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
Anne Lamott
#2. What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Corin Nemec
#3. Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
David Brooks
#4. You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
Bill Gates
#5. Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#6. Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.
Jeet Banerjee
#7. What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
#8. I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
Alex Gibney
#9. On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear.
Dave Barry
#10. It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Herbie Hancock
#11. What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
Auliq Ice
#13. Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Matthew Fox
#14. What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.
Jinkx Monsoon
#15. Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.
Peter Guber
#16. Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.
Gary Chapman
#17. This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
Jim Walsh
#18. Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
Janet Napolitano
#19. Before speaking, recognize what motivates your words.
Lama Surya Das
#20. The thing that motivates me most in my workouts is when I can learn something new.
Erin Heatherton
#21. True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.
... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#22. Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.
John Kapelos
#23. Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.
Barbara Corcoran
#24. Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value in what they do. This is the attitude that motivates them to be and to do their best. It's a drive that comes from within people.
William Walton
#25. Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.
Kevin Garnett
#26. When you can see the stakes, when you realize the true purpose of your mission, it motivates you. It makes you focus. It makes you push away the distractions. You gain clarity of purpose. You gain strength.
Harlan Coben
#27. From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
Baba Kalyani
#28. When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis
#29. Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.
Nita Engle
#30. We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
Henry Cloud
#31. 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
#32. I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.
Jeff Raikes
#33. I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it's an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.
Andrew Weil
#34. The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field.
Alice Dreger
#36. Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.
Molly Friedenfeld
#37. A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people .
Peter Drucker
#38. When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.
Ji-Hae Park
#39. I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
Edward Burtynsky
#41. Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
John Piper
#42. Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.
Bill Rodgers
#43. Greater empathy motivates you to change yourself, as your empathy encapsulates the planet, you become motivated to make a positive impact on the world.
Ilchi Lee
#44. If you do not like people, you will not take the time to get to know them, and if you don't get to know them, you will have no idea what scares them, what inspires them, what motivates them.
Bo Schembechler
#45. There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
Ogwo David Emenike
#46. You must: Learn to understand what motivates the people you want to influence. Become an expert at communication. Know how to make people like you. Learn how to inspire people.
Dirk Van Loon
#47. A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.
Matt Ridley
#48. If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
Viswanathan Anand
#49. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
Aaron Rodgers
#50. Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#51. We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group.
Hillary Clinton
#52. Sex is better than power because people use power to have sex. Sex is better than money because people use money to have power to have sex. Sex is really what motivates people; it's what makes the world work.
A.D. Aliwat
#53. And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.
Debbie Stabenow
#54. What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?
Gloria Feldt
#55. Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
Eric Maisel
#56. I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.
Martha Roby
#57. For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!
Summer Sanders
#58. The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?
Luis Von Ahn
#59. What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.
Annette Bening
#60. I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
Natalie Cole
#61. I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.
Sheryl Swoopes
#62. If it is your assignment to write copy for a product or service that you really don't have a feel for, then you have a great deal of studying to do to make sure you understand who your customer is and what motivates him or her.
Joseph Sugarman
#64. It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
Candy Crowley
#65. Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.
Michael Jordan
#66. If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
Michele Bachmann
#67. Take bigger leaps. Yes, quit your job if it's holding you back. Put yourself in a position where failure can't be an option. In order to do that, you have to have something that truly moves and motivates you.
Benjamin P. Hardy
#68. Catching people doing things right provides satisfaction and motivates good performance. But remember, give praise immediately, make it specific, and finally, encourage people to keep up the good work.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#69. The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.
Harrison Ford
#70. What motivates people to be late? ... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.
Harvey MacKay
#71. Creating awareness about what motivates us gives us the greater knowledge to choose.
Lisa A. Mininni
#73. It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.
Steve Jurvetson
#74. I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to grow as a person and as an artist, and a role that will deepen my understanding of humanity, and my connection to it.
Forest Whitaker
#75. I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research ,and that is what motivates me with space exploration.
Nelly Ben Hayoun
#76. Before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
Lama Surya Das
#78. I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
Martin Yan
#79. What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
Arsene Wenger
#80. Enthusiastic people take action rather than setting up roadblocks or distractions. What helps grow enthusiasm and build momentum is having a clear vision of what motivates you, which will help you remain focused.
Farshad Asl
#81. [Spielberg] surrounds himself with great crew members who are at the top of their game and know their stuff. He motivates us by liking what we do, and he doesn't get paralyzed by the process or by new ideas. He embraces them and uses them.
Janusz Kaminski
#82. Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.
Dee Dee Artner
#83. What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.
Mark Zuckerberg
#84. The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
Carol S. Dweck
#85. If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.
Walter Russell
#86. People who love us are the people who will listen and understand our juice expression, which supports our struggle, gently admonish us when we are wrong, forgive us when we fail, motivates us to optimize the potential and even more amazing is he celebrating our success as celebrating though.
Rifhi Siddiq
#87. All right prayer has good effect, but if you give your whole life to the prayer you multiply its power ... No one really knows the full power of prayer. Of course, there is a relationship between prayer and action. Receptive prayer result in an inner receiving, which motivates to right action.
Peace Pilgrim
#88. Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude.
Robert Urich
#89. There is genuine Hip Hop; a message that connects, rocks a crowd, and motivates a people and then there is what is left ... instead of Hip Hop we have Hip replacement.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#90. Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.
Christina Aguilera
#91. The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.
Oren Moverman
#92. What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do ... fight
Anderson Silva
#93. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
Mike Nichols
#94. The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
David Cassidy
#95. What motivates me is not one more championship, it is the challenge each year. I have just thoroughly enjoyed starting in spring with a new team and trying to put all the elements together to make a team.
LaVell Edwards
#96. Workplace culture is the heartbeat of an organization, and either yields energy and motivates people to pursue greatness or sucks the inspiration out of employees and slowly brings a business to a grinding halt.
Kevin E. Phillips
#97. Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.
Margaret Heffernan
#98. Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
Stephen Covey
#99. Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?
In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.
Love. Love was what drove him.
David Bowles
#100. The Value of Thinking About Why Here are just some of the benefits of asking why: It defines success. It creates decision-making criteria. It aligns resources. It motivates. It clarifies focus. It expands options.
David Allen
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