motivation Quotes

• Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

  

  Izabel Goulart
  • motivation
  • Sport
  • Concentration

• The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Desire
  • Responsibility
  • Sometimes

• The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

  

  Alexander Paterson
  • Care
  • Discipline
  • motivation

• It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Important
  • Mind

• If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Knowledge
  • Inspiration
  • Senses

• I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.

  

  Chris Albrecht
  • People
  • Lasts
  • Lines

• As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.

  

  Hayden Christensen
  • Character
  • Actor
  • motivation

• It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

  

  Carl Froch
  • People
  • Negative
  • Fighter

• It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • inspirational
  • Dangerous

• We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • motivation

• The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Burning
  • Motive

• In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • motivation
  • Occasions
  • Motive

• There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

  

  Michael Hansmeyer
  • Design
  • Inspiration
  • Process

• The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • Persons
  • Jobs
  • motivation

• I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

  

  Nita Engle
  • Desire
  • Artist
  • motivation

• "Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

  

  Barry Malzberg
  • Universe
  • Understanding
  • Events

• The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

  

  Ben Morgan
  • Lost
  • motivation
  • Embarrassment

• Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

  

  J. B. Matthews
  • Great
  • Men
  • Preparation

• One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.

  

  Michael Anti
  • Inspiration
  • Regard
  • Headlines

• When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • May
  • Compassion

• The stronger an agent’s motivation to A is, in comparison to the agent’s motivation for alternative courses of action, the more likely the agent is to A, other things being equal.

  

  Alfred Mele
  • Action
  • motivation
  • Equal

• He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

  

  Carl Froch
  • Moments
  • Serious
  • Trouble

• You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Today
  • Funny
  • Driving

• God did not grant one and the same will, one and the same desire, one and the same motivation to each and every woman… He takes pleasure in creation’s variety

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
  • Desire
  • motivation
  • Will

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