Quotes About Motivated

#1. My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

Juan Goytisolo

#2. We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

Charles Peguy

#3. If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

T. B. Joshua

#4. The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.

Reid Hoffman

#5. Motivated people are passionate! They love what they do and they are full of themselves (in the nicest possible way). Their enthusiasm and excitement are catching and they attract other people's interest and attention.

Lynda Field

#6. People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Dan Farmer

#7. The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire - the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.

Paul O'Brien

#8. When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. have realized about myself that I'm very motivated by people counting on me," he answered. "I like to be counted on."14

Brad Stone

#10. I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways!

James May

#11. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. There should be exit interviews for dating. Just a brief evaluation of the highlights and challenges of the relationship, and maybe a few questions like "So what exactly was it that motivated you to dump me?

Devan Sipher

#13. Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

Frank Zappa

#14. Every success won is a motivation to the next level of success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#16. If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

Daron Malakian

#17. I have never been motivated by money.

Robin Chase

#18. I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

Jennifer Doudna

#19. The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

Pharrell Williams

#20. My hustle has often involved food, because, much like household pets or toddlers, I am food-motivated, which is a handy thing to know about me.

Amy Schumer

#21. What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If you take care of your customers and you have motivated employees, everything else follows.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#22. You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls daily and (direct field sales) meet at-least 5 clients daily ...
Only customers can teach u sales!

Honeya

#23. I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.

Sharon Tate

#24. The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

Wynton Marsalis

#25. I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love - well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. As

Jodi Picoult

#26. Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.

Juicy J

#27. When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

Beverly K. Bachel

#28. 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

#29. I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

Dane Cook

#30. It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.

David Letterman

#31. I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better ... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

Mario Batali

#32. Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Henry A. Kissinger

#33. To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motivated .

Osunsakin Adewale

#34. We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#35. It is the sincere horror of it that gets others motivated, so say Watson and Andrews; the dysfunction caused by the onset of depression may serve a useful function in that it is a device for the elicitation of altruism.

Andrew Solomon

#36. The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

#37. 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

#38. I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.

Martin Compston

#39. To really become motivated to succeed, people need to believe they can win.

John C. Maxwell

#40. Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

Bernie Sanders

#41. The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

David Burnett

#42. Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

Zell Miller

#43. Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

Sarah Thornton

#44. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Merlin Olsen

#45. I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#46. All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#47. What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

Michael Chiarello

#48. I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

S.A. Tawks

#49. Leaders ought never to allow the least motivated members of an organization to set the pace for the others. Rather,

Henry T. Blackaby

#50. I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Byron Katie

#51. I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

Richard Dreyfuss

#52. True devotion is motivated by love alone and devoid of selfish entanglements.

Rick Hocker

#53. If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

Jonathan Haidt

#54. I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

Magic Johnson

#55. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#56. Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

Brendan I. Koerner

#57. The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.

Andy Hertzfeld

#58. I'm motivated by fear ... a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

Will Smith

#59. Atheists' anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.

Greta Christina

#60. Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

Sara Sheridan

#61. India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

William J. Clinton

#62. My best advice is to work out with a buddy. They keep you motivated and get you out of bed.

Heidi Klum

#63. I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#64. I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Josh Fox

#65. Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

Winifred Gallagher

#66. A brane is a distinct region of spacetime that extends through only a (possibly multidimensional) slice of space. The word "membrane" motivated the choice of the word "brane" because membranes, like branes, are layers that either surround or run through a substance.

Lisa Randall

#67. I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

#68. Most people were motivated not by what they want but what they want to avoid.

Katie Kacvinsky

#69. The reward for goal-setting is that as you achieve each goal, you feel in charge of your own destiny, with every moment taken up productively. Self-esteem increases and it becomes easier to remain motivated. So set those high goals and make clear plans for their execution.

Archibald Marwizi

#70. I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

Iqbal Quadir

#71. Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset.

Ehab Atalla

#72. From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

Joseph Heller

#73. I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

Rachel Griffiths

#74. No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).

Jack Ma

#75. Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

John Bingham

#76. I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Christina Aguilera

#77. When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have the right to comment about each other. And I object when people say that these comments are motivated by anti-Semitism.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#78. Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

Carroll Quigley

#79. Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.

Jeaniene Frost

#80. Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm motivated.

Dave Bautista

#81. You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. [on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.]

Alexis Bledel

#82. A motivated manpower is the most important thing.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#83. I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Albert Einstein

#84. 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

#85. put: your son needs to become self-motivated so you can stop nagging him. Good luck! This

Daryl Capuano

#86. I'm motivated by entertaining people.

Ray William Johnson

#87. Don't be managed by the likelihood of mishaps. Be motivated by the promise of favor!

Carlos Wallace

#88. I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Jon Scieszka

#89. I think most people are motivated to want to do what is best for themselves. People want to avoid STDs. I believe in a system that leaves it up to the individual to protect their own health.

Chester Brown

#90. You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?

Napoleon Hill

#91. When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

Venus Williams

#92. Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

Gary Zukav

#93. Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

Yasmin Mogahed

#94. We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

Daniel Johns

#95. There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

John Krasinski

#96. 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

#97. I'm not worried about that. Aidan loves Sam, and a man can do great things when he's motivated by love. Maggie

Lauren Gilley

#98. Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Kenneth Hildebrand

#99. I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.

Samantha Stosur

#100. I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

Louis C.K.