Top 390 Motivation Quotes

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

Salman is a motivation himself. He has fire within him.

I work ’cause I have to pay the bills. But I also work ’cause I love it. I don’t know what I’d do with me if I didn’t have this work. It’s what I’ve done all my life. It’s my motivation. It’s my satisfaction. It’s my joy to stand in front of an audience to sing, to come back home and write songs. Man, it’s amazing for me.

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

Concepts such as ‘risk factor modification’ and ‘prevention’ are often considered boring and they may not initiate or sustain the levels of motivation needed to make and maintain comprehensive lifestyle changes.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn’t correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college – and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn’t overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.

When you are with your team, you get the right motivation to work hard every day and get back to the field quickly.

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I’d never amount to anything. I thought, ‘Hmm. OK.’ That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it’s the best motivation you’ll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you’re going to be expected to deliver.

My motivation wasn’t really to get a $95 million contract, you know?

The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong.

I am lucky to get the ­opportunity to play for France and that alone is a huge motivation for me, whenever I go on the pitch.

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

The atmosphere at the Estadio Vicente Calderon is fantastic, and puts the players’ motivation up into the clouds.

I think that the world is full of really, really good musicians, but that’s not necessarily my motivation for having people involved. It’s more how they contribute to the scene as a person.

I’ve been working really hard in this business for a very long time and I’ve had my share of ups and downs – and to be honest, most of them have been downs. It’s a motivation point.

When you start to work out during your holidays, you know you’ve got the motivation. When I stop working hard during my holidays and getting excited before the beginning of the season, that’s when I’ll know it’s time to call it quits.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I’m a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I’m hitting certain points in the script and that I’m progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

What you have to have is motivation and you have to have drive.

Often, writer’s block will occur when I don’t understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

I don’t think I’ve got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.

My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

Intrinsic motivation is one of learning’s most precious resources. It bolsters us to stick out the tough moments of a challenge and pursue what we love to do.

I’d much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I’m a transactional lawyer, which involves a lot of negotiation. If nothing else, that’s given me a good eye for human motivation and frequent case studies in peculiar psychological quirks. I think that’s served me fairly well as a writer.

A lot of times in coaching, that’s more than half the battle, to get people that are willing to buy in because they trust you and understand that you’re genuine in your motivations.

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.

The fact that I can play with a lot of veterans is very good for me, a big motivation for me.

If you have a team that believes in one another that’s ok, but you still need that individual motivation.

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I’m on the creative end of things, I’m discovering that they’re even more fun to write!

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.

I don’t ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans – not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

Working with Timbaland, he gives me insight; he throws me different ways to approach the beat, and those extra tips go a long way. I know that he’s worked with some of the greats, so it’s just motivation. I feel inspired when we’re in the booth together.

Thanks to all members of the military around the world for giving me the ultimate motivation.

Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.

I love Twitter in particular because it allows me to grow and see how people feel about the decisions I make. My followers, they’re always pretty honest with me. I love the honesty I get. I also find motivation in it.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

I can tell you that tennis is a huge motivation for me.

I had never even thought I’d be an actress – I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It’s the same career.

I think we all have moments when we struggle with motivation.

Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, ‘What do I do now?’ So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, ‘I’m the Olympic champion. I can’t lose’ – being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I’ve sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, ‘What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?’ Most people see their motivations as justified – as, you know, justifying whatever they do.