Quotes on Motivation

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

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

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.