Quotes About Motivation

Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to 'sell' the learning to them.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?