Quotes About Motivating Myself

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

Shawn Johnson

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

George Monbiot

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

Katie Couric

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Jennie Garth

#8. Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

George Barna

#9. 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

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

Cheryl Richardson

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Eraldo Banovac

#14. 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

#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. 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

#17. 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

#18. If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

Kim Kardashian

#19. I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Andre Agassi

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

Frank Herbert

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Bear Bryant

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Herman Cain

#27. 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

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

Steven B. Sample

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

Donny Deutsch

#30. Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Bill Gates

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Inspiration is everywhere.

Charlotte Eriksson