Motivates Quotes

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis

Work, Mistakes, Made

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
Bill Gates

Done, Down, Wonderful

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton

Love, Great, Hate

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Matthew Fox

Beauty, Healing, Here

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto Duran

Makes, Getting, Three

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
Jeff Bezos

Business, Care, Why

You never know what motivates you.
Cicely Tyson

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
Hugh Jackman

Success, Respect, Down

I think envy motivates a lot of people.
Shia LaBeouf

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.
George Lucas

Inspired, Interested, Kid

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.
Mark Zuckerberg

Proud, Stuff, Building

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.
Herman Cain

Today, Fun, Themselves

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.
Wilford Brimley

Judge, Nothing, Start

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
Vin Diesel

Love, Everything

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
Jimmy Wales

Positive, Fun, Big

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
Eddie Vedder

Music, Government, Pretty

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 think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
Martin Yan

Money, Job, Passion

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
Don Johnson

Matter, Material, Inspiring

I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
Fergie

Music, Makes, Song

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock

Money, Best, Mind

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
Janet Napolitano

Country, Here, Violence

I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
Garrett Hedlund

Good, Looking, Okay

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Herbie Hancock

Attitude, Style, Project

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

Fear, Down, Play

And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.
Debbie Stabenow

Morning, Job, Lost

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
David Cassidy

Money, Anyone, Difference

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.
Sheryl Swoopes

Work, Someone, Give

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
Zooey Deschanel

Movies, Nice, Human

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Corin Nemec

Nature, Truth, Art

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