Motivated Quotes

• I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Motivated

• I was never motivated by money.

  

  Neymar
  • Money
  • Motivated

• I've played so many gigs in front of around seven people. It's difficult to keep motivated, but it's all about growth. The love of music kept me going.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Music
  • Growth

• After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Time
  • Long
  • Heart

• Hire people who are smarter than you, and don't be afraid to work with them as partners. Make it clear that you plan to learn from them, not just the other way around. The right, smart, motivated people respond very well to that approach, particularly coming from a younger manager like I am.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • People
  • Work
  • Smart

• Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Born

• If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.

  

  Leigh Michaels
  • Time
  • Action
  • Motivated

• In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Green
  • Jobs

• I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Adversity
  • Motivated

• 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
  • Believe
  • Mistake
  • Dreams

• Setbacks motivate me.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Motivated
  • Setbacks

• I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Motivated

• To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Motivated

• I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Motivated

• The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

  

  Elisabeth Harnois
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Motivated

• On a Spike Lee set, everybody seems to want to be there and is motivated to work in unison and do the best they can.

  

  John David Washington
  • Work
  • Motivated

• Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Mother
  • Washington
  • Ambitious

• I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

  

  Eric Thomas
  • School
  • Death
  • Learn

• Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

  

  Elisabeth Harnois
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

  

  Peter Guber
  • Heart
  • Motivated

• I still love the preparation of the game. I think that actually helps you heal faster, still being around it; it keeps you motivated. It keeps you engaged, and I want to be around my teammates.

  

  Jon Beason
  • Game
  • Motivated
  • Preparation

• Act by inspiration, motivated by love.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Inspiration
  • Motivated

• Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Leadership
  • Motivated
  • Torments

• I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Violence

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