Motivated Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

Others, Creative, Desire

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz

Simple, Motivation, Eliminate

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau

Music, Good, Feelings

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown

Life, After, Become

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Write, Themselves, Desire

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
Russell Crowe

Person, Matter, Plan

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
Dean Koontz

Father, Him, Sometimes

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis

Courage, Live, Deep

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
Alanis Morissette

Love, Success, Thinking

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
Erykah Badu

Music, Money, Business

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.
R. Lee Ermey

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
Louis C. K.

Saying, Through, Mad

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.
Simon Mainwaring

Often, Desire, Almost

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
Rick Pitino

Today, Hard, Different

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
Dian Fossey

Gorilla, Anticipate, Purely

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.
Serena Williams

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.
Andre Agassi

Challenge, Face, Obstacles

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
R. Lee Ermey

Bad, News, Drill

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
Venus Williams

Mistakes, Win, Tell

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Bob Beauprez

Education, Parents, Between

I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Work, Great, Truth

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
Salma Hayek

Woman, Before, After

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Linus Torvalds

Hard, Before, Rather

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.
John Sununu

Service, Themselves, Might

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Mother, Him, Young

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.
Greg Anderson

Love, Dreams, Live

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.
Sean Connery

Challenge, Keep

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
Jeff Bezos

Easy, Motivation, Common

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
Mario Batali

End, Everything, Reason

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