Quotes on Motivation

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.

If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.