Motivational Quotes (610 Quotes)

It's real frustrating. I thought we had a lot of motivation coming into the game.

The state meet is my main focus right now. This is my senior year, so it's my last chance to do something. I would like to be top 15. That's the motivation right now.

Mentally, ... I wasn't there. I didn't have any motivation. But I was better in the third set I started making the great passing shots that I needed to break her.

That's always I think in everybody's back of their mind. We obviously want to be in the playoffs. We're not just sitting here saying we don't want to be in the playoffs. We've just got to find a way to use that as positive motivation.

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

I'd like to believe that we're learning to win close games. We've taken some time to learn some lessons, and I'm not sure we're going to learn all of our lessons this year. If we're behind going into the third period, we need to have the motivation to come back and win those games.

Every heat I'm in is an honor for him -- he's my motivation.

That loss provided me motivation, I had to remember what it was like to lose to get even more focused here.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

It's definitely a motivation for all of us, but what I really need is that ring. I want to put that ring on my finger. I want the experience. We've come too far to turn back now.

There's a lot of motivation there, ... Any time somebody doubts you when you have confidence in your own skills, you tell yourself, 'We're not going to lose this. We're going to go out there and fight to win.' We're going to turn a lot of heads when we win this game.

The motivation is not the Guinness record. The record we really want to beat is the 200,000 we raised last time.

I've talked to some guys who've won championships, and the one thing coming into the next season is they seem to fall into a complacency. The additions of myself and Nickand we've never wonwe're going to keep on those guys. This team has never repeated, so they have that motivation. Hopefully it's all enough.

It's remarkable. The guy I started with in the end was the only person that I thought actually had a sort of selfless motivation.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

If we have an opportunity to keep it from spreading, shouldn't we do so A big part of our motivation was to keep it off the Western Slope. It was real nice idea that was probably 10, 15 or 20 years too late.

It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too.

We know that he has had what I would call emotional difficulties in the past. There is certainly no evidence at this point which points to any other kind of motivation other than his personal problems,

I didn't talk about the streak all week. I didn't want to use it as motivation.

I don't care who you are. When you put on a uniform that says USA it is different. I saw a picture of the (America) hockey team on USA TODAY (after the Olympics) with their heads down. That is not a good feeling. We are not using anybody's disappointment as motivation, but it is a reminder of what we are doing here and everybody is watching us.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I hope they're a little angry. I hope they're a little disappointed about how they played Friday. You need a little bit of that going into the tournament. You need a little bit of a fear factor, an edge, some motivation.

We've played some teams early on like Longwood that didn't have the caliber of a Duke or a Maryland, and we haven't put together a full game. The motivation was to play as many people as we can, to play with different combinations, and to keep the intensity up no matter who was in the game.

We went into the locker room and got a hell of a motivational speech from our coach. We saw our season slipping away, and we came awake and came alive in the second half.

I often lose motivation, but its something I accept as normal.

She had so much motivation. I knew she was going to win a medal. She is a really strong skater and it was not that big a surprise.

This prosecutor may have new information that may contradict prior testimony or may have questions about prior testimony, may simply seek a clarification. I'm not going to try to speculate what the motivation is behind Mr. Fitzgerald in asking a return by any witness. But there are a variety of reasons that someone might be called back to answer additional questions before a grand jury.

Anyone can take the best 11 kids around and form a team, it's the other 11 kids that don't get picked that will win you championships. Fire in the heart is all the motivation they need.

Compared to the other teams, it definitely seems like a younger team to me. But I think that everybody here has the same motivation, the same desire to go out there and win these games and put us in the Super Bowl. That is everybody's goal. There is no doubt in anybody's mind that we can do that as long as we play the way we are capable of playing.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

When is he coming back I know his bat will be there. I'm curious about how he's running. A motivation I don't know. We've got something going already.

I just said I wasn't going to cut it until I won a Super Bowl, so that's my motivation. I figure come January, it shouldn't be so high...but it's getting pretty bushy. My mom doesn't like it. I figure this year, I'll stick to the script.

My motivation, I guess, is kind of power to the people.

They're obviously not anyone we take lightly. They are definitely going to have some motivation. They obviously don't want to lose the season series to us, a first-year team.

We revere the presidency. Any innuendo or any kind of impulse that anyone has to attribute any kind of motivation on the part of these men of honor who have prepared this case for you today on any whim on their part other than to do their constitutional duty should be rebuffed at every conversation,

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

I want a staff that could relate to young people, understand our values that our program will have and that will not only serve as a source of motivation but also guide young men to become better players, better students and better people. These two guys will be tremendous representatives of our program and our university.

I felt good about that one once it left my hand. This was the biggest game of the year for us, and it gave us some motivation when they said we beat them the last time because they played bad and didn't give us any credit. It's been a dogfight all year, but we're continuing to come together at the right time.

I think we understood the importance of the game. I think we understood that every night we come out to play, we come out to win. We knew that wasn't one of our better halves, so we took that as motivation.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

It's definitely a concern. There is that extra sense of motivation (for the team that lost both games), especially if the games were close.

We've certainly got the motivation to find someone. I really don't think it's going to be difficult for us to find (a sponsor). We've got a great product already in place for them.

The motivation, we just have no idea.

I've seen changes in our teachers and in their motivation, through more relevant lesson plans, assessments that are more authentic, projects that are more real-world based ... more than at any other time. Students are performing at a higher level than ever before. It's new, it's working. It's goal-driven and career-based. Today's schools are becoming more like an adult learning environment.

Nobody in this building was really rooting for us. I think guys used that for motivation.

One of the greatest business leaders in America today, James F. Oates of the Equitable Life, said this about factors which he said were necessary to develop us into real eminence in any field. He said Whatever may be the nature of our work, or the character of our own vocational activity, eminence always involves the following And then he named four factors, and I want you to mark them. 1. You must have the determination to excel. 2. You must have the willingness And I want you to mark this. to pay the price, to study, to live through disappointments with optimism, and to accept the sacrifices necessary to succeed. Now, do you get the significance of that 3. You must have the steadfast pursuit of purpose, doing the work day after day, week after week, yes, year after year, whether you feel like doing it or not. 4. You must have pride and faith in the virtue of your calling. That is to say, spiritual motivation. (James F. Oates, Address before the YMCA at Los Angeles, California, April 15, 1960.)

I saw Bartolo Colon's trainer the other day and he said, 'I haven't seen you in three weeks, what no massages' ... I have too much energy, too much motivation. I don't need massages. I'm not thinking of what part of my body hurts.

To me, ... it's really about inspiration and motivation.