Top 576 Motivate Quotes & Sayings

Talk is cheap if it doesn't motivate action.

I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

Setbacks motivate me.

We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

You cannot motivate anyone but yourself. To enhance or cause action in another person, you must create an atmosphere around them wherein they will want to motivate themselves.

Money doesn't motivate, but stats do.

The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you motivate them to acquire it for themselves. This is the essence of effective copywriting.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

There is definitely little things that motivate you every year.

You can't let concerns stop you; they drive you and they motivate you.

But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.

I'd rather motivate somebody all day long.

Motivate the mind and set your body free!

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I'm not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock 'n' roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they're not alone.

Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?

I motivate myself by the desire to win more trophies.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement.

It benefits us all to motivate others.

We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.

I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be.

I want to motivate people because I know how it is, struggling, and coming from a place where you have nothing. So my thing is to motivate people to let them know whatever you put your mind to, or whatever you love to do, then stick with it and don't give up.

When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you - it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Strong girls always motivate and energize me.

I want to motivate the world, basically.

I like to motivate and inspire people.

I want to motivate people to be natural and to embrace their body and who they are.

I hope that my story can motivate someone.

Doubt is part of the human drama. But don't let it consume you-let it motivate you.

The things that motivate human beings, they don't change, emotionally.

Personal titles aren't something which motivate me.

Leaders do not motivate per se. They create conditions for people to motivate themselves. They do it by communicating clearly, setting clear expectations, following through and recognizing performance.

There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.

I always found it hard to motivate myself.

Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be

You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

A vision from God will motivate you. A vision for God will keep you on track. A vision from God will keep you moving and motivate you to press on to the mark of the high calling of God. This is why we need to have a vision. God's provision is directly linked to your expectation.

Let's go, champ' started as a way to motivate myself.

I hope I set an example to motivate people, to motivate the new fighters, motivate the guy who doesn't got to the gym who doesn't train martial arts because he has a knee injury or some little things.

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.