Explore Quotes on Motivation

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

Don't worry about your future. God knows you completely, accepts you unconditionally and loves you wholeheartedly. You can trust Him.

We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.