Motivational Quotes Page 2

Fear is the biggest motivator.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.

No one does anything from a single motive.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Be proud of who you are, not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it;

the other, that you can boast about it.

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around.

I'm always moving around.

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.

It's never out of fashion to pursue your passion.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I tramp a perpetual journey.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive.

Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.

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

You never know what motivates you.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

Courage is a muscle that you can develop.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.

Don't count the things you do, do the things that count.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

We need challenges; its part of who we are.