Motivated Quotes

• When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

  

  Dominika Cibulkova
  • Small
  • Tennis
  • Motivated

• 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

• Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Never

• 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

• If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Legacy

• My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• 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

• Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• 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

• Setbacks motivate me.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Motivated
  • Setbacks

• Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Motivated

• I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

  

  Ken Hensley
  • People
  • Desire
  • Christian

• When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Motivated

• I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Financial
  • Motivated

• I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Wife

• I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

  

  Danny Garcia
  • Persons
  • Boxing
  • Position

• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Wish
  • Drug
  • Assuming

• I deserved a 'T'. I was trying to get our guys (motivated). It was a good call.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Trying
  • Motivated
  • Guys

• The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Clear
  • Accomplish
  • Determined

• At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Results
  • Motivated
  • University

• I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

  

  Tyson Gay
  • Motivated

• The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
  • People
  • Team
  • Rest

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