Best Motivation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.”

Needs Persons Motivation Goal Achieve Resources Capability Recruit

Author:Arsene Wenger

“My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.”

Care Motivation Healthy Eating Eating Healthy

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.”

People Motivation Asks Simple Answers Ask Me

Author:Jerry Reed

“If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.”

Ifs World Way Giving Writing Looks Motivation Energy Creative Endless One Way Thieves Another Way Mojo

Author:Julianna Baggott

“Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.”

People Play Would Be Motivation Chance Wise Special Willing Summer Realistic Olympics Something Special Hometown

Author:Joe Sakic

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

Source: Works

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

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Author:Anne Frank

“When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.”

Heart Seems Motivation Speak Forget Race Color Gender Sincere Right Place

Author:Adam Yauch

“One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.”

Wells Persons Motivation Felt Series Primaries

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.”

Problem Motivational Motivation Challenges Morning Dating Entrepreneur Thought Provoking Breakfast Encouraging Toughness Pharmacy Breakfast Being Important

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“View every problem as an opportunity.”

Problem Motivation Opportunity Sports Views Insightful Softball

Book:Success forces

Source: Success forces

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”

Source: Oh, the Things I Know!

“There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.”

World Long Enough Motivational Motivation Sticks Personal Growth Capability Tape Rulers Yards Measuring

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.”

Inspiration Motivational Motivation Hope Information Inspiration And Motivation

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.”

World Motivation Suffering Wish This World Oneself Arise

Author:Shantideva

“Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.”

Inspiration Motivation Sports Race Successful Team Events Innovation Solo Runners Breakthrough Sports Team Sprint Relays Relay Races

Author:Nguyen Quyen

“Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.”

Thinking Knows Trying Inspiration Motivation Crazy Cancer Preserves Nerves Healthcare Surgery

Author:Nguyen Quyen

“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.”

Home Motivation Bits Clear Terrible Behavior Consequence Tests Harder Motivated Buried Labs Bad Behavior Control Ourselves

Author:Ben Marcus

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

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Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

Source: Poor Richard Day by Day

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”

Two Enough Motivation Sleep Liberty Mindset Graves Two Things Lazy Leisure Laziness Poor Richard Being Lazy

Book:The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

“I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.”

Motivation Challenges Normal Normal Life New Challenges

Author:Holly Madison

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

“My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.”

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Author:Holly Madison

“There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.”

People Giving Motivation Common Progress Harder Tendencies Disagree Attributes Common Ground

Author:Peter Welch

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.”

People Ifs Way Want Children I Can Helping Desire Motivation Can Do Normal Can Do Something

Author:Panayiotis Zavos

“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

May Two Motivation Certain Liberty Easier Gains Constant Mindset Fuel Expenses Temporary Uncertain Chimneys

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.”

Motivation Creativity Detrimental Intrinsic Motivation

Book:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.”

Persons Motivation Term Hours Effects Projects Rewards Short Term Boost Caffeine

Book:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.”

Motivation Goal Focus Easier Behavior Guides

Author:B. J. Fogg

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.”

Humans Spiritual Motivation Spirituality Games Names Animal Compassion Creativity Survival Curiosity Unconditional Love Irrelevant Unconditional Human Animal Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Beings

Author:Peter Shepherd

“What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.”

Ideas Inspiration Motivation Community Poverty Aids Shut Up

Author:Ernesto Sirolli

“Action is where it's at, as far as making dreams come true. We ourselves are the prime channel for our creations, so if we don't act but just wait, then we are blocking the channel. If we do act then we will be supported by all that we are connected to... which is All That Is if we act with love and service as our motivation.”

Ifs Dream Action Success Motivation Waiting Creation Connected Block Abundance Prime Dreams Come True Making Dreams Come True

Author:Peter Shepherd

“There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.”

World Persons Inspiration Motivation Common Company Successful One Thing Collaboration Successful Company

Author:Ernesto Sirolli

“Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.”

Inspiration Motivation Kissing Planning Entrepreneurship Kiss Of Death

Author:Ernesto Sirolli

“Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.”

Thinking Success Motivation Imagination Journey Perseverance Patience And Perseverance

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.”

Thinking Needs Feels Action Motivation Knowing Successful Produce Being Successful Follow Through Thinking Differently

Author:Hal Elrod

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“The best way out is always through.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“What is it that you think about just before you get a condom? Sex!”

Thinking Inspiration Motivation Sex Condom

Author:Amy Lockwood

“Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.”

Facts Motivation Games Aspect Chess Reactions Tennis Competitors Bluffs

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.”

Inspiration Motivation Pages Impact Cancer Healthcare

Author:Ananda Shankar Jayant

“But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.”

Trying Whole Motivation Fighting Fire Filled Cards Gambling Halls Deck Thug

Book:Hull Zero Three

Source: Hull Zero Three

“The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.”

Humans Desire Motivation Interest Mankind Security Duty Rewards Strongest Incentives Fidelity Ruling Passion

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.”

World Needs Feelings Motivation Creation Essentials Chiefs Artistic Motive Artistic Creation

Book:Literature & Existentialism

Source: Literature & Existentialism

“Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.”

Littles Motivation Consequence Concern Motive Liable Preoccupation

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

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