Motivated Quotes

• I'm 100 per cent motivated. I haven't done enough yet in cycling to be satisfied.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Done
  • Motivated

• I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Money
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Scripture tells us that 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' Captain Humayun Khan of the United States Army showed in his final moments that he was filled and motivated by this love. His name will live forever in American memory, as an example of true American greatness.

  

  John McCain
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Motivated

• I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.

  

  Gerard Cox
  • Training
  • Teacher
  • Parent

• Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Community
  • Motivated

• I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Learning
  • Motivated

• Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Motivated

• It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

  

  Bernard Holland
  • Motivated
  • Irony
  • Attract

• I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Mad
  • Motivated

• I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

  

  Blythe Masters
  • Motivated

• If she stays on the path she is, then yea. As long as she stays healthy and motivated, she certainly has the potential to do so.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Healthy
  • Motivated
  • Stays

• The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Up
  • Motivated

• One of the most important actions, things a leader can do, is to lead by example. If you want everyone else to be passionate, committed, dedicated, and motivated, you go first!

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Important
  • Motivated

• 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

• Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Time
  • Long
  • Motivated

• I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Motivated

• It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • Attention

• Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Different
  • Individual
  • Motivated

• Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Motivated
  • Focused
  • Fancy

• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Desire
  • Inspired
  • Motivated

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