quotes about Motivation
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.
-- Aaron Huey -
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
-- Abraham Maslow -
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type of motivation and that type of energy into my music, and I've always had confidence in my music as well.
-- Ace HoodSource : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
-- Adam RaynerSource : "Adam Rayner Talks Tyrant, Joining the Show, Playing an Arab Character, Shocking Moments, Shooting the Pilot in Morocco, and His Character’s Motives". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2014.
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When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.
-- Adam YauchSource : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
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No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.
-- Adi Da -
They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.
-- Adrien Broner -
Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.
-- Adrien Broner -
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I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
-- Adrien Broner -
When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.
-- Adrien Broner -
I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.
-- Adrien Broner -
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I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.
-- Adrien Broner -
I fight, knock them out, have some sex and Monday I'm back to hitting bags and kicking ass.
-- Adrien Broner -
He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.
-- Adrien Broner -
I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.
-- Adrien Broner -
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I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.
-- Adrien Broner -
I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.
-- Adrien Broner -
I'm very flexible. I've got flexibility in any weight class. If you guys out there want to fight me man, I will fight you guys.
-- Adrien Broner -
I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn't have the skills to beat me.
-- Adrien Broner -
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Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business...I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle.
-- Adrien Broner -
Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.
-- Adrien Broner -
Every fight I mature. I'm getting older. I'm maturing as a man. I'm maturing more inside the ring, but at the end of the day I'm still Adrien Broner. I'm still that kid who's living his dream and I'm just having fun.
-- Adrien Broner -
It don't matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.
-- Adrien Broner -
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Everybody saying Guerrero, I'll really turn your ***** into a real ghost.
-- Adrien Broner -
Ay Rios, you want to fight at 140? We can fight at 140. You're chubby, I just seen you in Vegas, you were chubby, your ears were chubby.
-- Adrien Broner -
Ay Dad, brush my hair one time. Hey pops! Come brush my hair.
-- Adrien Broner -
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Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.
-- Adrien Broner -
Who wants to wake up in the morning and have to remember that they've got to face Adrien Broner?
-- Adrien Broner -
I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.
-- Adrien Broner -
Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.
-- Adrien Broner -
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It's all about the Benjamins, I got a Pay Per View and I should be on Pay Per View.
-- Adrien Broner -
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
-- Aga Khan IV -
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
-- Aga Khan IVSource : Baccalaureate Address at Brown University Delivered by His Highness the Aga Khan, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, www.brown.edu. May 26, 1996.
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Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
-- Ahmed Ben BellaSource : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.
-- Aimee Mann -
Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.
-- Aimee Mullins -
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In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?
-- Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani -
It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
-- Alain de Botton -
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.
-- Alan MacDiarmid -
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The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.
-- Alan Russell -
I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.
-- Alex Shaffer -
Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.
-- Alex Steffen -
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If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
-- Alexander Paterson -
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?
-- Alexander Tsiaras -
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.
-- Alexander Tsiaras -
I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
-- Alexis Arguello -
Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
-- Alfie KohnSource : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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the shell must break before the bird can fly.
-- Alfred Lord TennysonSource : Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics
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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.
-- Alison Gopnik -
How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
-- Alistair Begg -
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.
-- Alister E. McGrathSource : Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons
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Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.
-- Allan Savory -
I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.
-- Allen Iverson -
Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
-- Amby Burfoot -
Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.
-- Amit AbrahamSource : New Dawn Press, Incorporated, Amit Abraham (2004). “Personality Development Through Positive Thinking”, p.9, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
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What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
-- Amory LovinsSource : "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.
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Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.
-- Amy Cuddy -
What is it that you think about just before you get a condom? Sex!
-- Amy Lockwood -
Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.
-- Amy Ruley -
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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
-- Amy Tan -
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
-- Amy Tan -
I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.
-- Amy Van Dyken -
Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.
-- Ananda Shankar Jayant -
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Every fighter is my toughest challenge to date. After I get done with one fight, the next challenge is the toughest.
-- Andre Ward -
I like to talk come fight night, that's how I do it, but I'm not a pushover.
-- Andre Ward -
In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.
-- Andre Ward -
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I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.
-- Andre Ward -
That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.
-- Andre Ward -
As a man, I have no problem saying I was hurt.
-- Andre Ward -
Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.
-- Andre Ward -
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You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.
-- Andre WardSource : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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I'm just excited that the fans are going to get their money's worth, and you can't say that a lot of the times.
-- Andre Ward -
I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.
-- Andre Ward -
I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.
-- Andre Ward -
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I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.
-- Andre Ward -
Even if you are sick, you fight until you have nothing left.
-- Andre Ward -
He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.
-- Andre Ward -
I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.
-- Andre Ward -
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I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.
-- Andre Ward -
Anybody that's in my weight class, above me or beneath me, I keep an eye on.
-- Andre Ward -
It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.
-- Andre Ward -
I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.
-- Andre Ward -