Top 144 Motivates Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Motivates Quotes from famous people such as Jermell Charlo, Julie Sweet, Mohit Raina, Shreyas Iyer, Kofi Kingston, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I’m proud of what my brother has done. His success motivates me. He’s a world champion.
Jermell Charlo
What motivates me has changed over time. My younger self was driven by the desire to be extremely successful.
Julie Sweet
I work for creative satisfaction. It’s my hunger for good work that motivates me to explore.
Mohit Raina
Social media has become a big part of our lives and I try to manage it well but it’s the criticism that motivates me and keeps me going.
Shreyas Iyer
Winning the WWE Championship has been my dream for a very long time. But what motivates me more is to inspire people to go out and follow their dreams.
Kofi Kingston
I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I’m having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.
Aly Raisman
I’ve got to try and create the best life I can for my baby and my family, so yeah, that motivates me.
Aaron Mooy
My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.
Betsy DeVos
That’s what really motivates me, being great.
Evan Fournier
Having a kid motivates you to really take stock of yourself and how much of yourself you want to be reflected back in the actions of your kid.
Cory Barlog
Hui and E’dawn have many talents, and I can learn a lot from them. But they just lack experience. When I am with them, I feel like I become very innocent, and it motivates me. I guess it’s because I am too used to performing as a soloist, and things have become too comfortable hitting the stage alone.
Hyuna
To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me – not success.
Hugh Jackman
We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it’s usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother’s incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they’re black.
Patrisse Cullors
When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that’s touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.
Jason Isbell
What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.
Mark Zuckerberg
Playing against Pakistan automatically motivates our team to perform well.
P. R. Sreejesh
Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.
Jim Peebles
There’s a certain type of theatre that I haven’t got any time for at all – established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There’s quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging.
Marianne Elliott
That’s what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
Aaron Rodgers
People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
Wendy Kopp
Music is a huge part of my life when I am on the road, working out, or preparing for a game. It is something I always go back to, and it is something that motivates me. It gets me hype before a game.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.
Sander Levin
Kendrick Lamar is a phenomenal artist whose work has served as a catalyst to raise a new level of consciousness for this generation. His message challenges the status quo and motivates listeners to rethink our society’s institutions.
Aja Brown
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like the money, but that’s not what motivates me.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I don’t think anything motivates you more than not having a job.
Carson Palmer
There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
Marvin Hagler
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
The fear of losing motivates me, and that’s it.
Jimi Manuwa
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It’s not yet knowledge; it’s an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
Nathaniel Branden
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
What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.
Bazzi
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn’t really matter what it is.
Don Johnson
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
Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you’re only as good as your last performance.
Paul Heyman
Self-awareness is a trait – or maybe ‘practice’ is the more accurate way to put it – that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you.
Neil Blumenthal
When you receive criticism, you should take it in your side, but I’ve received love more than anything else, and that’s what motivates me and keeps me going.
Mawra Hocane
I’ll see trash talk and people telling me why they’re favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.
Jon Jones
Switching genres actually motivates me.
Priyanshu Chatterjee
People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
Helen Sharman
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
It’s asking that never-ending question, ‘Who am I?’ which motivates me and takes me on a constant journey of self-discovery that teaches me so much. Will Everest make me more cautious? In reality, probably not.
Ant Middleton
The amount of love I’ve received from the audience and industry motivates me to work even harder and want to better myself every day.
Ananya Panday
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
Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.
John David Washington
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
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
It’s important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
Candy Crowley
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
It motivates me that people rate me so highly and want me to do well, which is a good feeling. Personally, I don’t think about milestones or medals, but like to take each competition as it comes and focus on doing my best and becoming better with each competition.
Neeraj Chopra
I’ve been told I’m too good looking for certain roles, but that’s okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
Garrett Hedlund
I am always open to working with debutant directors, as they bring a new perspective to a script. That motivates me and helps me choose unique scripts.
Nayanthara
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
Whatever motivates the enemies of charter schools, you cannot describe it as anything but evil. How else do you characterize adults willing to sacrifice the welfare of powerless children to entrench their own power?
Miranda Devine
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
What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who’s best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.
Adam Ondra
Having people disappointed with a game I’ve been working on, and my team has been working on, is one of the things that motivates me to make a better game.
Peter Molyneux
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