Browsing Topic Best Motivation Quotes

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

To freely bloom – that is my definition of success.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Never, never, never give up.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

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.

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

For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail – or we never even get to implement them – we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

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.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

I’d rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.

To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we’re not in competition, if you like.

The way to get motivated and stay motivated is to identify, define, and emotionally connect to your dreams.

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That’s motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.