Motivated Quotes

580 Motivated quotes by 468 unique authors

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. — Oprah Winfrey
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find… — Al Yankovic
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. — Chuck Yeager
You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. — Edmund Hillary
When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but… — Gordon B. Hinckley
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the… — Malcolm X
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When… — Dalai Lama
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code… — Harper Lee
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion… — Margaret Mead
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength… — Joan Bauer
My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy… — Augusten Burroughs
motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot. — Jim Rohn
Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what… — Joel Osteen
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire… — Margaret Atwood
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the… — Daniel Dennett
If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling… — Andy Stanley
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. — Jasper Fforde
We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it. I personally wouldn’t… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain. — Stephenie Meyer
You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It… — Jonathan Tropper
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our… — Stephen Levine
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste… — Milan Kundera
Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a… — Sloane Crosley

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