Explore Quotes on Motivation

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.

I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Kirby played every day. You feed off of that. When you think of Kirby, you think of motivation. Im definitely going to dedicate this year to him.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.