motivation Quotes

• I'm habitually positive. I try not to use anger as motivation.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Trying
  • Positive
  • MMA

• 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.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Survival

• I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Perspective
  • motivation

• It's easy to motivate a client when they are sitting on a bench right in front of you, but the real challenge for a trainer is to have that motivation exist even when you are not around.

  

  Jessie Pavelka
  • Real
  • Challenge
  • motivation

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Up
  • Education
  • Road

• Usually, in daily life, we are motivated to do something, then we do it. But when mood is low, we have to do something before the motivation comes.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Something

• Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Concern
  • Vegan
  • Interconnectedness

• I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Stay working. Stay busy. It should be motivation instead of down time because down time is like being depressed. It shouldn't be like that. It should really be motivation to keep going.

  

  Lil Durk
  • motivation
  • Going
  • Depressed

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

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Inspiration
  • motivation

• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Values
  • Theory

• The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Important
  • Know
  • Me

• I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Heart
  • motivation
  • Critics

• 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.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Disrespect

• 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.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Live
  • motivation

• Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Real
  • motivation
  • Obsession

• 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!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • American
  • English
  • Inspiration

• It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • High
  • Coffee

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