Best Motivation Quotes

In many ways, I’m a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it’s often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

you don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

That’s what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure – like Ninja Barbie, but I’m Vulnerability TED.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

The two most powerful words when we’re in struggle: me too.

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the Four F’s: fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

You will accomplish a lot more with movement than you will with motivation. So MOVE. Create action. Make plans and stick to them. But above all: Cut Out The Input, And Begin The Output.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out!

People who don’t want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that’s a lot of what acting is.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn’t explain something simply, you didn’t understand it.

Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

[I’ve] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. … They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It’s the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

As a younger actor, my motivation may have been ‘Do you want that job or don’t you?’ Now it’s ‘Do you want to look like crap on film?’

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.