Quotes tagged ‘motivation’

(227 total)

“The time to hesitate is through.”

“My biggest motivation has always been love.”

“My name is Kobe Bryant, I’m 17 years old. I have the hunger, the motivation and the desire to be the best possible basketball player that I could be.”

— Kobe Bryant, goalcast.com

“The 12 Best Motivational Books to Boss Yourself Up”

— Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan.com

“I do what I do because of my dad.”

— James Gray, Ethan Gross, Roy McBride, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

“Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

— Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort, Leonardo Dicaprio, imdb.com

“But the sun just keeps coming up...every day and you can't cry forever. You have to put your shoes on, you have to eat, you have to have hope. Don't you? Because who knows? Maybe tomorrow."”

— Christopher Keyser, Becca Gelb, Gideon Adlon, imdb.com

“From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don’t know that I would have been so motivated.”

— Anderson Cooper, amazon.com

“You don’t want to be punching down. And it’s best to keep the name of your nemesis private. Running around talking trash about someone on the internet could lead to a very awkward encounter at a party or to getting reprimanded at work.”

— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com

“Promise yourself you will start living and finding beauty in the small things life gives us.”

— F. e. Marie, thoughtcatalog.com

“It is out of not only through satanism, but patriotism that I am motivated.”

— Anonymous Male Satanist, imdb.com

“You know what’s the biggest motivation? Leaving ungrateful people behind. There’s no greater teacher than loss. You’ve learnt to be confident enough to walk away from those who find it hard to make room for you. Because in the end, you’ll never miss what’s meant for you.”

— Chidera Eggerue, theslumflower.com

“You see rejection in everything, because you dislike yourself and live inside your head.”

— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com

“Bob Slydell: I'd like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now, we had a chance to meet this young man and, boy, that's just a straight-shooter with 'upper management' written all over him. Bill Lumbergh: Oooo...yeahhhh, ummm...I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there. Ye…”

— Mike Judge, Bill Lumbergh, Gary Cole, imdb.com

“Peter Gibbons: You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't even care. Bob Porter: Don’t—don't care? Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's a…”

— Mike Judge, Peter Gibbons, Ron Livingston, imdb.com

“I was there to push people beyond what’s expected of them. I believe that’s an absolute necessity.”

— Damien Chazelle, Terence Fletcher, J.K. Simmons, imdb.com

“Roxie: Hey, what's that for? Sabrina: Josh and I are throwing a singles party at the coffeehouse. I'm sure you think it's stupid. Roxie: I haven't been on a date in five months. I can live with stupid. Sabrina: Well, there's no motivation like desperation.”

— Adam England, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com

“You’re strong, you’re a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this.”

— Jonathan Van Ness, imdb.com

“Sometimes a baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do.”

— Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, Tommy Pickles, Elizabeth Daily, imdb.com

“It is here, standing at the crossroads of Should and Must, that we feel the enormous reality of our fears, and this is the moment when many of us decide against following our intuition, turning away from that place where nothing is guaranteed, nothing is known, and everything is possible.”

— Elle Luna, amazon.com