The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone. — George Carlin
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal. — Arsene Wenger
Highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. — Adam Grant
I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard. — RuPaul
Better motivated on the wrong thing than unmotivated on the right thing. — Naval Ravikant
motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot. — Jim Rohn
It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it. — Frederick Herzberg
I'm motivated because I want to support my mom and my family. — MrBeast
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti
The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. — Alexander Paterson
Short Highly Motivated Quotes
If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms. — Jurgen Klopp
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson
Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out. — Nate Diaz
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. — E. M. Forster
Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley
Enthusiasm moves the world. — Arthur Balfour
The most effective form of motivation is progress. — James Clear
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin
Be your own motivation. — Jon Jones
Highly Motivated Image Quotes
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. — David Foster Wallace
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Highly Motivational Quotes
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
It's called the pump, people - you got to experience it; it's one of the better highs in life, you don't need to shoot up for it, you don't need to snort it. All you got to do is sweat for it. — Greg Plitt
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. — Rabindranath Tagore
The potency of group training. Individuals are more highly motivated in a group setting compared to going at it alone. This phenomenon even has a name: the Kohler effect. — Rhonda Patrick
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. — Swami Vivekananda
How To Get Motivated Quotes
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out. — B. F. Skinner
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. — John Bingham
That’s how you get others to come up to your level: show them where it is, and set the example that allows them to get there. — Tim Grover
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. — Norman Vincent Peale
Be a warrior. It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down in life as long as you always get back up to fight for your dreams. — Chatri Sityodtong
When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like. — Sofia Coppola
{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. — Conor McGregor
How Do You Motivate Someone Quotes
My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!' — Jim Rohn
Compensation isn’t how you motivate someone to do great work, it’s how you reward and retain someone who can’t help but do great work. — Naval Ravikant
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
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville! — Paulo Freire
What Is Your Motivation Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again? — Rachel Carson
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. — Heraclitus
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination...like it or not, your life is what you have chosen. — Gregg Braden
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day — Will Durant
Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours. — Tony Robbins
Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. — Dan Inosanto
Being Motivated Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou
Feeling Motivated Quotes
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! — Frederic Chopin
People will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life. — Rhonda Byrne
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. — A. A. Milne
My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already. — Milton Berle
When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you - it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness. — Judah Smith
Motivation And Hard Work Quotes
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks. — Elbert Hubbard
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams. — Jane Goodall
People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold. — Billy Mills
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr
Motivation And Determination Quotes
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be. — Michael Josephson
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. — Tony Robbins
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation. — Arsene Wenger
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen
For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Powerful Motivational Quotes
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou
The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. — Sayings
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. — Fulton J. Sheen
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. — Frederick Herzberg
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt
Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. — Chris Hadfield
I originally started in natural bodybuilding because I was picked on a lot in high school and didn’t get much attention from girls. As I learned to love the process of lifting more and more I started becoming more interested in competing. — Layne Norton
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked. — Viola Spolin
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. — Daniel Burnham
We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress. — Kylian Mbappe
I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
You have to raise your game to the level of those around you. Then you have to maintain that high level, and by doing this I think I am improving naturally. — Kylian Mbappe
Don’t buy a stock just because it has had a big decline from its high and is therefore ‘cheap’. A stock can be cheap and yet not be attractive. — Thomas Phelps
I’m never trying to break a career high out there. — Kawhi Leonard
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula
High pressure salesmen focus on the short term incentives to outweigh the long term cons. — Isaac Mashman
We have a pretty high speed and pretty high altitude, but that is what we train for. That is our profession and that is what I like to do. — Sergei Krikalev
High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates. — Michael Powers
Many stocks could have been bought at 52 week highs for many years and still turn out 100 to one winners. All one has to do is identify them and stick to them. — Thomas Phelps
Growing quickly through a highly effective marketing channel is crucial for most start-ups. — Cliff Lerner
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture — M. Scott Peck
To me, the word profitable means sustainable – able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence. — John W. Henry
I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before. — James Cameron
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people. — Wayne Dyer
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest. — Michael Pollan
The trick is not to get hooked on the highs and lows and mistake an activated attachment system for passion or love. Don’t let emotional unavailability turn you on. — Amir Levine
Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support. — Joe Vitale
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones. — Desmond Morris
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity. — Daniel H. Pink
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez
We have very high standards and it works. Our business is wonderful as a result. — Jim Simons
Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful. — Norman Vincent Peale
I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it… it all depends on who I travel with. — Diane Von Furstenberg
Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college – and now. — Kawhi Leonard
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