Motivated Quotes

• I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Kids
  • Leadership
  • Mistakes

• I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • School
  • Evidence
  • Missionary

• There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Challenge
  • Motivated

• Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Motivated

• Motivated beings have a capacity to represent goals and means to goals.

  

  Alfred Mele
  • Goals
  • Motivated
  • Represent

• If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Running

• What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Motivated

• Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Wish
  • Organization
  • Economic

• I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.

  

  Emily Susan Rapp
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Despair

• If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Motivated
  • Losing

• The funnest jokes for me to tell are the ones that are the newest. So I'm just constantly motivated to keep my eyes and ears open and have new stuff.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Eye
  • Jokes
  • Ears

• There are still people who insist that we have to preach on repentance. Well, I disagree! I think we should do it God’s way – preach the goodness of God and allow the goodness of God to lead people to repentance. Such repentance will be true repentance. It will not be motivated by the fear of judgment and indignation. It will be a genuine repentance that is motivated by His grace, unconditional love and compassion. After all, our ability to love God stems from our first tasting His love for us.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Ability

• I would tell Vince McMahon, 'Hey! I'm telling you, I'm going to run this place one day.' And I think Vince likes to hear that. He knew I was motivated. He knew I was hungry.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Motivated

• To create real wealth you must abandon your limited thinking, eliminate boundaries, and stop defining the outcome. Most importantly it means not letting people motivated by jealousy, greed, and envy dictate what your limitations are. You have to take risks in life. Your actions are what count.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Wealth
  • Risks
  • Limitations

• From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Moral
  • Teach
  • Certitude

• If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Compassion
  • Anger
  • Motivated

• What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

  

  Eric Chivian
  • Change
  • Global Climate
  • Human catastrophe

• What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.

  

  Nick Heyward
  • Writing
  • Joy
  • Creative

• When you play against important teams, you obviously feel more motivated.

  

  Thiago Silva
  • Play
  • Motivated
  • Teams

• I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic function, but the more comfortable I've become and the more imaginative and sophisticated and the more exploratory I've become at the medium, the more I've subtly deviated away from that in various ways.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Various
  • Sophisticated
  • Imaginative

• It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Sometimes
  • Painful

• The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

  

  Seth Godin
  • motivation
  • Motivated

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