Motivational Quotes (610 Quotes)

When you made me a dark horse, you gave me some extra motivation.

The energy was real high tonight. We came out with a lot of motivation we knew this game was important and the fact that we shot well helped us keep that going. They had it in their eyes tonight. I'm so proud of how they kept it positive, they played wi

Competition makes you better. Rich is our starting quarterback. When you have someone there who has played and won it's a motivational deal and it helps you play better.

The biggest benefit is the motivation and excitement for those who are participating,

If this (new indictment) doesn't prove that the motivation behind this indictment is political, then I don't know what it is.

If one got too concerned with motivation, his eyes would kind of roll. He and John have collaborated before, so there was a good shorthand there.

Seventy percent of high school students already take the college entrance exam, so the component of that plus students doing better on motivation would be a positive thing.

That loss to Philadelphia left a bitter taste in our mouths, but our motivation is to come back this year and try to top that, ... I'm excited about where I'm at right now. I can imagine what the future holds as I continue to play in this offense.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

That to me sounds very Lance-like. It leaves things open and the motivation seems pretty clear. He is immensely proud of his reputation.

It's definitely some good motivation. He put up some great numbers. It makes you realize that you're not only playing for the guys in the room with you now, but the guys who have been there before.

We just used that as motivation. We deserved it.

When you're 0-10, we only have one place to go and that's up. You have to have some type of motivation to go out and play. We go into every game thinking we can win, man, even though we've had all these close losses.

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so.... If motivation is too strong the personis blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possiblities.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

I don't know if there's a great deal of motivation to learn English.

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

I hope our guys have motivation. One, you go home if you lose. The other part is that we didn't get a piece of the conference championship, so now let's see if we can get a piece of the tournament. Then you have NCAA Tournament seeding on the line. I would think the Friday-Saturday games are so important for that.

In essence, the motivation of the attacks on advertising is hostility toward capitalism and egoism.

I don't know what it is. Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, it's kind of been like that. I guess it's become a little more of a motivation for me to shake off whatever nicks I might pick up, because I'm really just trying to be there for the guys.

Last year was the first time in about nine years we haven't made the playoffs. That's certainly a motivating factor.

We certainly respect them, they put it on us by 26 points on the road. With or without Bulger, were going to have our hands full. When we got beat by West Virginia, for the next two weeks we all had to hear about it. I dont think that sat well with our kids and our coaching staff. So we have all the motivation in the world to come out and play well against West Virginia.

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.

At times it can be frustrating because everyone is doing so well. At the same time it's kind of motivating because you are with guys who have been doing it every day for 10 or 15 years. It can be a motivational tool for me.

Every week, we've had to play like it was our last game. Don't lose that attitude now. Don't lose that motivation. Now, the pressure really is on for everyone else, but we've been going through this.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

It's a time for us to remember the people that have dedicated their lives to changing lives, to guiding children. They of course are teachers. And they have to be jazzed about teaching to keep up the inspiration and the motivation that creates excellent in our classrooms.

The Saints aren't going to let up any. They're going to play hard and with a lot of motivation, and with their abilities, they have a lot of good things going for them.

Yeah, it was good. We had a lot of motivation.

People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.

We lost that game in the past, so basically, most of this team, with the exception of one starter, was back and on a mission to get back to Stony Brook not only to be there but to be in it. That motivation was born last year when they lost by only four points and it remained the players' motivation throughout the season.

I am not into We lost so I have extra motivation, or anything like that. The bottom line is we have to go down there and win. All the extra stuff or talking about it before the game, none of that matters if we dont go down there and play the way we need to play. That is the way we have to approach it.

It's great to have big goals. It's a source of motivation.

I'm their motivation. We don't need outside opinion or perceptions to be motivation. I know how we need to play to get to the next level.

I feel race wasn't necessarily a motivating issue, but because race is involved, it is something that being a university on the state level, a public university, that it is something that they need to consider when making decisions like this.

We used that as a lot of motivation. I guess we're not going to get help if we're seen as the team to beat.

The question of the fire, the motivation, the discipline, it's all there. What you can't account for is what happened in Carolina last year.

We played our worst ball of the year up there. That was all the motivation we needed tonight.

I feel like I was closing the chapter on the whole New Mexico thing. The motivation was definitely there, with a guy I used to play for, former teammates.

I just use that stuff as motivation, ... I feed off it.

Terrorism isn't about identity it's about motivation.

It is such a difficult challenge to build a start-up. Making money is not enough of a motivation to start a new global start-up company.

I think he has the skills to play on the next level, it's just a matter of motivation.

We've done focus groups by the dozens and people find it motivational, ... They get the message and recognize it's colon cancer and are supposed to go to their doctor and get a test.

Whatever the motivation, eventually reserves are enough to protect against everything except Armageddon, ... With the precautionary value falling, and explicit financing costs rising, reserve accumulation creates a growing strain on government finances, in addition to creating a perception of exchange rate manipulation in some cases.

I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a part of the community.

' She always wants to be on top, ... Now she's definitely got more motivation.

It's really just the opposite. The atmosphere on campus is so electric, it provides extra motivation.

The motivation is either an interest in space, astronomy, science fiction or being at one with the universe. Some see it as a spiritual choice.

Since Mike resigned, we've all talked about how they would react. We told our guys we needed to get off to a good start and play with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. We got off to a good start and that kind of nullified any motivational edge.