Best Motivating Quotations

144 Motivating quotes by 127 unique authors

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an… — Kevin Costner
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. — James Dean
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. — Jimmy Dean
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible… — Gail Devers
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that… — Ralph Fiennes
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. — Lee Iacocca
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. — Jesse Jackson
If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about… — Kim Kardashian
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — Og Mandino
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy… — Lionel Messi
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low,… — Michelangelo
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by… — Rupert Murdoch
I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be. — Joel Osteen
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is… — Camille Paglia
Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for… — Sarah Jessica Parker
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. — Charles R. Swindoll
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open… — John Lennon
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the… — Joseph Campbell
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life,… — Henry B. Eyring
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. — Frank Herbert
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be… — Jon Krakauer

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