Top Motivation Quotes Collection
Discover a curated collection of Motivation quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.
I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.Collection: Motivation
Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.Collection: Motivation
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.Collection: Motivation
If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.Collection: Motivation
Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.Collection: Motivation
There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.Collection: Motivation
The first step is the hardest.Collection: Motivation
'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'Collection: Motivation
A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.Collection: Motivation
We think revival means a silver-tongued preacher, some good music, and a few folks who decide they're going to join the church. No! Real revival is when people are eating at a restaurant or walking through the mall when they suddenly begin to weep and turn to their friends and say, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I know I've got to get right with God.Collection: Motivation
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.Collection: Motivation
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.Collection: Motivation
People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.Collection: Motivation
[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.Collection: Motivation
What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.Collection: Motivation
There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.Collection: Motivation
If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.Collection: Motivation
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.Collection: Motivation
If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.Collection: Motivation
The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to scienceCollection: Motivation
True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.Collection: Motivation
Trade is 10 times as old as farming.Collection: Motivation
Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.Collection: Motivation
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.Collection: Motivation
Mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.Collection: Motivation
They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.Collection: Motivation
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.Collection: Motivation
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.Collection: Motivation
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.Collection: Motivation
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.Collection: Motivation
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.Collection: Motivation
Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.Collection: Motivation
Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.Collection: Motivation
In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.Collection: Motivation
My motivation comes from playing the game I love.Collection: Motivation
My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.Collection: Motivation
Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.Collection: Motivation
There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.Collection: Motivation
I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.Collection: Motivation
When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.Collection: Motivation
You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! You are what you think you are.Collection: Motivation
A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.Collection: Motivation
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.Collection: Motivation
This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That that’s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. There’s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.Collection: Motivation
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.Collection: Motivation
Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.Collection: Motivation
Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.Collection: Motivation
A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of "omission" as well as "commission." You can feed, clothe, and house your kids and not really parent them. When we raise kids for selfish reasons (to feel proud, to have people love us and appreciate us), if they disappoint us we'll pull back. But when we realize that God has called us to raise godly children and God is always worthy to be obeyed, we have a motivation that goes beyond our own pride and our own comfort.Collection: Motivation
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.Collection: Motivation
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.Collection: Motivation