Motivation Quotes

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win.

My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That's really what you want to emulate.

In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.