Explore Quotes on Motivation

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.

The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.