Motivational Quotes (610 Quotes)

I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

I think it's going to be a classic. It should be a great game. Our motivation is to prolong our season.

The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to ''prime the pump'' and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

We've played Amarillo each of the last three years in the tournament and we've never beaten them so that should serve as some motivation for us.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

She put me under her wing when I came onto the team. I met her when I was nine years old, and she gave me the motivation and kind of the goal to be in the Olympics and win an Olympic gold medal.

They have a lot of motivation. People say they shouldn't have got in.

That's a big difference from last week, ... I hope we can use this as a little motivation. My chest is still sore, but this is an added bonus knowing the way we played today.

My motivation is very high. I am very pleased to be with a great team like Renault, the world champions. Also, I know I am driving a very quick car this year. My target is to fight for the championship, and I am optimistic I can do that.

You never want to go out with a loss. We just have to use this as motivation.

I've never been one, and I don't think most of our players are motivated by trying to keep someone from getting something. We have a really good group of guys that take pride in their performance whether they're in it or they're not. This is a division game against a team that beat us pretty badly earlier in the year and there's always some motivation there. If we weren't a team that had the type of high character individuals on it that I think we do, then there would be cause for concern. I think we'll give it our best shot.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

I knew in my heart this team had tremendous motivation. They worked extremely hard going back to the way that season ended a year ago.

Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating.

We've won 14 in a row, and people always want to knock you off. You use that as motivation. You don't want to be the guys who lose.

It was a frank discussion about Indian cricket, present and future, and much of what I said was aimed at motivating Saurav for the Bulawayo test. In that regard our exchange was beneficial.

Obviously our main motivation is to get back to the Super Bowl and win it this time,

Detroit has its own agenda, which is to rest its guys, and Washington has the motivation, which is understandable. So is the Orlando-Indiana game. That's part of it. That's why you play all 82 (games).

There's some motivation there that we could do it, too.

I personally have a lot of motivation to play well against them. I'm hoping to have the best game of the year, hopefully. We'll see what happens.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

What we need now is encouragement, support, motivation, vision, foresight, and courage, ... We aren't spending a lot of time looking back. We are looking at what we can do for people today and tomorrow. That's our focus. We're just not going to spend time right now looking backwards.

There has to be a combination of a education and access to activities. A successful club isn't just having a room with equipment in it, and no reason to go there except for your own motivation.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

People say that if you want to play soccer in college you have to play for us, all we do is steer kids in the right direction, then give them a kick in the pants for motivation.

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you, you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Reed said the delays give companies like his the motivation and opportunity to look more closely at Exchange and Outlook. A lot of end users feel lost in the complex and quirky Notes client, but the hope is Notes 5.0 will cure a lot of that, ... I can't honestly tell them 5.0 will address their concerns yet, and I may not be able to until it actually ships.

I just look over there for inspiration, motivation. You know, sometimes when I'm a little bit flat, they get me going.

When you know it's going to be the last game of your career, that's all the motivation you need. You want to make a final stand leave it all out there on the court.

This tournament gives us the opportunity to move up and secure our spot in the rankings. There are teams behind us who are looking to move up as well. In the big picture we can't get caught up with who's in the rankings. We have to go and play the game of golf. The field is a motivating factor in terms of preparation, and one that we get fired up for in the schedule, but when it comes down to the competition, it comes down to playing one shot at a time and doing our best.

We just didn't have our heads there. We know we should have closed the game out. We used it as motivation.

My total motivation is to serve the Lord, ... That's just the natural response of a Christian to give back.

We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.

We fear that the motivation was identity theft but we're hoping that we stopped it in time.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

It's a motivating factor. Anytime you lose to anybody, you have that chip on your shoulder. We have a lot to prove.

That was an unlucky finish for us, but it really motivated us more than it took away from our motivation. I think it really unified our team even more.

There are actually a variety of reasons. You can look at the thieves there are actually types of thieves amateurs and professionals. The difference between the two groups are motivation.

It's wrong to presume their entire motivation is driven by respect for a lost friend. Tyrone were a wrecking ball yesterday, a fusion of furies that attacked every sense. But they thrive on it That game tested us to the limit, ... To win any game is good, to win any final is fantastic. But to win it when you are pushed to the limit, that's the ultimate.

We used that as motivation. We came into this tourney wanting a chance to play S.C.

Profit is not my motivation.

I had no doubt that would be the motivating factor.

We don't know the motivation (for the suicide).

(The decision) not only increases the motivation to get trains operating, but the (grant) application becomes more competitive with the concentration of jobs within a mile of the corridor.

The family has concerns about the motivation behind it.

This is an opportunity we would want to take ... you just jump at something like this. This has served as great motivation. By the third week of November, we were 35 strong with juniors and sophomores in the weight room.

Jim jumped well and will continue to improve. Jim needs no motivation. He motivates himself enough.