Motivated Quotes

• Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Competition

• There's a basic understanding that to maintain the TPC mark, even as a license facility, it has to maintain a certain quality that is reflective of the TPC brand. The great thing about the situation in this case is we're dealing with partners who have a very strong presence in the Myrtle Beach area, and obviously it's their reputation as well so they're motivated to maintain a quality experience.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Strong

• I'm really motivated by music, and I love dancing, even if it's just by myself in my room or if it's going out with my friends.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Motivated

• There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Care
  • Perception

• Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.

  

  Eric Betzig
  • People
  • Why
  • Risk

• I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Music
  • Motivated

• Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Life
  • Motivated

• Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.

  

  John Sununu
  • Service
  • Motivated

• Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.

  

  James Heckman
  • Work
  • Children
  • Character

• We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • School
  • Job
  • inspirational

• Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Up
  • Why
  • Experience

• Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • People
  • Power
  • Reality

• This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur—who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving—all give us an advantage.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Moving

• As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.

  

  Bing Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Work
  • Experience
  • College

• The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may not be true. And that idea is still unproven. It is the foundation, what started me and what everybody failed to **** prove has so far defeated the greatest efforts by experts to be proven.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • May
  • True
  • Effort

• You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Lawyer
  • Motivated
  • Recovery

• When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Motivated

• I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • People
  • Business
  • Parents

• Something I've learned is that when people tell me I can't do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • People
  • Why
  • Wonder

• I am very proud to be Brazilian and more motivated than ever to demonstrate what I can do.

  

  Bruno Senna
  • Proud
  • Motivated

• There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Time
  • World
  • Motivated

• My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Motivated

• With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Adversity

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