Quotes on Motivation

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

The world belongs to the energetic.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, in this fantastic A-C hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and everything. But it is not nice to bring them to our homes. It's not nice to give them employment in our factories, our companies. It's not nice for our children to study with their children. There it ends. That's my biggest challenge.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, and risk will be no more.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.