Quotes About What Motivates Us

#1. I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

Jimmy Wales

#2. The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine ...

Caroline Myss

#3. Creating awareness about what motivates us gives us the greater knowledge to choose.

Lisa A. Mininni

#4. It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

Zooey Deschanel

#5. Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

Vin Diesel

#6. [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

#7. Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Herman Cain

#8. If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Don Johnson

#9. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Harriet B. Braiker

#10. The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

RuPaul

#11. The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.

Walter Russell

#12. Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.

Robert Reynolds

#13. You never know what motivates you.

Cicely Tyson

#14. It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.

Oli Anderson

#16. I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

Sandra Bernhard

#17. Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Peter Drucker

#18. True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

Myles Munroe

#19. One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.

Bobby Schilling

#20. I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.

Fergie

#21. I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.

James Nesbitt

#22. I listen to a lot of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Old school songs. Rick Ross. I listen to a guy ASAP Rocky. I like different kinds of music. I always have. It motivates me before games ... A Tupac playlist or a Meek Mill playlist. It varies.

Trey Burke

#23. In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Robert B. Laughlin

#24. If any kind of obedience, regardless of what motivates it, is what God is after, He would have showcased the Pharisees and exhorted all of us to follow their lead, to imitate them. But He didn't. Jesus called them 'whitewashed tombs'
clean on the outside, dead on the inside.

Tullian Tchividjian

#25. I know this kind of person. I've known them all my life. They get the sympathy of others with what passes for insecurity. But what really motivates them is a vanity so immense most of us can not conceive of it. Insecurity is simply a disguise.

Anne Rice

#26. 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

#27. Now the question we must ask is ... what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are _but_ to whom I am being a neighbor.

Namsoon Kang

#28. Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

Joanie Connell

#29. What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

Howard Zinn

#30. What motivates people to stay sane in all this insanity, I don't know.

Cameron Jace

#31. The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

Lance Armstrong

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.

Tim LaHaye

#34. Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Sasha Grey

#35. What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

Sander Levin

#36. Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.

Cynthia Howard

#37. I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#38. The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

Joan Benoit

#39. Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Ordway Tead

#40. A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.

Bill W. Clayton

#41. To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Hugh Jackman

#42. If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

Rand Paul

#43. The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

Billy Zane

#44. The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Robert Crumb

#45. If hate motivates your life, you'll never know the meaning of true love

Gaiven Clairmont

#46. A satisfied need no longer motivates.

Peter Sheahan

#47. I still let myself be a fan of music and that motivates me to want to be better than certain people or just getting the same love. Nothing is new under the sun so you cant be afraid to take things from others and try to flip them and make them your own at the end of the day.

Kid Ink

#48. I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.

Karen Finney

#49. What motivates me more than money are God and my family.

Albert Pujols

#50. It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

Johnny Galecki