Top 370 Motivated Quotes

I’m so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I’m always motivated when I go out on the pitch.
Emmanuel Adebayor
Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am motivated to be a better person.
Jane Clayson
I don’t care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, ‘Cowboy’s fighting!’ that’s my overall goal.
Donald Cerrone
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can’t figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.
Erik Brynjolfsson
We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
Ma Long
Fitness for me is a passion. Yes, my profession demands it, but that works more as motivation for me. And, like I get motivated by looking at pictures of Bollywood or Hollywood stars with fab bodies, I want others to take that motivation from me.
Ammy Virk
I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.
Olivia Holt
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy Graham
For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we’ve been lied to all our lives. You start educating yourself. You become motivated; you follow your muse where it takes you. And you see the world in a different way. You start making decisions based on what you feel is right.
Richard Linklater
Some people are motivated by money – I’m not one of them.
Harry Kane
For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn’t terribly motivated.
Ron Silver
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like ‘friend’ is declared not a verb, the problem isn’t that it’s confusing; it’s that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
Erin McKean
I don't need any more motivation. I'm fighting Canelo A

I don’t need any more motivation. I’m fighting Canelo Alvarez. If that can’t get me motivated, then I’m in the wrong sport.
Liam Smith
I think in the past, I was motivated by seeing what I could do with my own career as far as success. I was definitely motivated by my followers and family, which hasn’t changed.
Tess Holliday
I love and celebrate good teachers, and it’s critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated.
Whitney Tilson
It’s hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you’ve just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects.
Jay DeMarcus
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Linus Torvalds
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
Erykah Badu
The Premier League is different to other leagues where I have played, and everybody knows it is very tough, but I will do my best to beat my own personal records – I’m very motivated.
Naby Keita
When somebody gives their testimony or tells their story, the next person can be motivated or inspired by it. That’s all I’m trying to do.
August Alsina
I’ve tried to create a comedy that doesn’t look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, ‘Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.’ But the way we shoot ‘Insecure’ is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.
Melina Matsoukas
Kajol ma’am is full of energy. Her energy is so infectious that it motivated people to work with the same enthusiasm. She is a very friendly and warm person. We had a great time working with her.
Dhanush
I remember in Indonesia, there was this actor in a film that got pretty big internationally, and he went to Hollywood. Seeing an Indonesian guy doing that when I was 13 or 14, it really motivated me.
Rich Brian
I was never motivated by money.
Neymar
If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
Tim Scott
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
People think, ‘If I could only get motivated, then I’ll act.’ Nope. In actuality, it’s the opposite.
Brendon Burchard
I’m so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
Rachel Griffiths
As a member of the House of Lords, I don’t have a vote. If I did, I would be motivated as much by what I don’t want as what I do. I do want a Final Say referendum. So I do not want a Johnson majority.
Betty Boothroyd
I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.
Ricky Schroder
If I get a well-defined role and properly etched scenes, then I feel motivated to perform better.
Johnny Lever
I miss Kanye. I miss him around; I miss his brilliant energy. Keeps you really motivated… I love it. I love it! He is always ahead of the times. He is inspiring.
Jonathan Cheban
I’ve tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so – and he loves his country, just as I do.
John McCain
I write a lot more when I’m happy, because you’re hopeful, you’re motivated.
Andrew Bird
And one thing for me is I’ve never been motivated by money.
Tessa Blanchard
I feel my writing comes from a desire to… well, it’s motivated by many things, but it’s inherently a contradiction in that I’m writing for myself, and it’s a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Fighting Frank Mir is something I’d love to do. I’m motivated to fight him.
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
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
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
Vivek Wadhwa
I would have been a fantastic captain in a football team or a manager because I would have motivated people.
Phil Taylor
I have never been motivated by money.
Robin Chase
Hire people who are smarter than you, and don’t be afraid to work with them as partners. Make it clear that you plan to learn from them, not just the other way around. The right, smart, motivated people respond very well to that approach, particularly coming from a younger manager like I am.
Lynn Jurich
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Man Ray
Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
Dan Shechtman
I am aware of the crowd, the need to get them motivated and involved.
Judd Trump
I make no apology for wanting to make a profit – the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.
John Caudwell
The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
R. Lee Ermey
We’re in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.
Jameela Jamil
Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn’t you know?
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
The situation right after the fight wasn’t too good; I believe I’m still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you’ve won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.
Marvin Hagler
When you beat a team so often – especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us – you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they’re going to be even more motivated to finally win.
Dennis Bergkamp
What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most.
Kim Yuna
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
Jose Serrano
There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren’t motivated or families don’t care. We’ve discovered that is not the case.
Wendy Kopp
There’s a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there.
Nathan Chen
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
Angela Duckworth
Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer’s failing. I try to make light feel like it’s always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.
Rachel Morrison