Quotes on Motivation

Chance favors the connected mind.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

One faces the future with one's past.

The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.