Quotes About Motivation

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

No man can be successful, unless he first loves his work.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.

The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

Love is the reason for it all.

I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go make it happen.

You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

But the muse won't always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she'd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

Spirit. Approach life with genuine zeal, with vigor and energy. Walk a little faster than average. Read a little more. Try a little harder. Be enthusiastic, even about your thoughts. Give everything you do your every best effort.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Building a great community is fundamentally about creating an ecosystem in which people produce meaningful work, are able to thrive, are motivated to keep growing, and can help sustain the future success of the community. Doing this well is all about understanding the drivers and motivations of people, and using tech as a means to address and harness those drivers and motivations. Don't let the tech dominate your thinking.

Somewhat magically, when we do feel our work has meaning, it gives us a turbo boost of confidence to step up and have impact.

If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.