Quotes About Motivation

"I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses."

— Soichire Honda

"Hardship, poverty are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man."

— Bradford Merrill

"If you wish your life were different... do your life differently."

— Terence Houlihan

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

— Mark Twain

"If there is a good will, there is great way."

— William Shakespeare

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory."

— Cicero

"Choose growth over comfort, your success depends on it."

— Margie Warrell

"To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life."

— Eric Hoffer

"If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: I want to be praised."

— E M Coran

"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."

— Einstein

"A man who is afraid will do anything."

— Jawaharlal Nehru

"We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated."

— Maya Angelou

"Wealth and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

— Plato

"Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. Praise that acknowledges process related activities such as practice, study, persistence and good strategies are proven to instil and develop a growth mind-set."

— Carol Dweck

"Discover what motivates you, what incites you to take action to change your life. Basic motives include love, self-preservation, anger, financial gain and fear. Self-motivation requires enthusiasm, a positive outlook, a belief in yourself and your God-given potential."

— Keith Harrell

"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life."

— Alexander Bogomoletz

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

— Robert Kennedy

"Talent isn't enough. You need motivation and persistence, too; a blend of faith and arrogance."

— Steinbeck

"Talent isn't enough. You need motivation and persistence."

— Steinbeck

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

— JIM ROHN, Business philosopher

"Fear, desire, hope will push us on toward the future."

— Michel de Montaigne

"Motivation drives metacognitive skills which in turn activate learning and thinking skills, which then provide feedback to the metacognitive skills, enabling one's level of expertise to increase."

— Sternberg

"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."

— Steve Jobs

"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

— Abraham Lincoln

"The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest."

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

— Nelson Mandela

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why I recommend it daily."

— Zig Ziglar

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

— John Rohn

"Men's action depend to great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them."

— John Milburn

"My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feelings."

— Albert Einstein

"What can hinder our motivation?"

— Unknown