Motivate Quotations

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

I pray Cardiff get back to the Premier League. If I sell Cardiff, I will buy another club in the U.K. I have a club in Sarajevo. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible. They really motivate me. I'm looking at another club in Europe and then the MLS.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.

On really hot days, I try to motivate friends and family to come into the pool for an aqua jogging session which I teach. Aqua jogging is a great way to avoid the impact of regular walking or jogging on land. This is especially beneficial for those who have joint pain or who are healing from an injury.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.

I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible, honest people, and they really motivate me.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.

If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin saying that I inspired her. I'm so humbled by that. I think that's amazing.

It's not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don't want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own truth, light and joy.

All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

If I'm a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that's going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work.

A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.

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

We still won't be great risk-takers. That is something that I am going to mandate for myself. We have to do a great job of evaluating potential recruits. It's also our role as coaches to motivate and let them know what they need to do to graduate.

To motivate man is to move a mountain!

What he did was the right thing for him. Unfortunately, it has a negative influence on a lot of other people. Going into professional sports and making the money he's made does not close the option for him to still get a formal education. It does close the option for a kid that does not make it. If I'm some kid from the inner-city who has used athletics to motivate myself and I miss, I have no more options.

We're just really close, ... Ever since freshman year, we've gotten closer and closer, especially through the battle back and forth. We motivate each other on the sidelines. Everything's good when we're working together.

We're hoping and praying that this will motivate someone to come forward.

We're still not getting the consistency we need. It takes rock bottom to motivate them and we have to get away from that.

We have to get better. There are a lot of things we can do to get better. This feeling that this team is feeling tonight. This hurt and this pain has to motivate us this coming week to get better and to prepare and get refreshed for the ACC tournament. We really have to come out in the ACC tournament and really have an edge and a fire in each and every one of us.

We want to stimulate, motivate and encourage the associations by inviting them to join the Charter, and then getting as much out of it as they can. UEFA will help them achieve their grassroots objectives.

We've still got a ways to go. Obviously, (the new players) have made a contribution. Sometimes they make a contribution with their presence as well as their performance because they motivate other guys and they make other people fight a little stronger for their position within the roster.

When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

When you're already out of the playoffs, you need to find to certain things to motivate you. I thought we did a good job of stressing the fact that this is a huge rivalry for us and we owe it to our fans and ourselves to come out and put in a good effort.

Make exercise a reward, rather than a punishment. Think about how you feel at the end of a run and use that to motivate yourself.

Making plays I think was the difference. I don't know how many plays we had, but it seemed like finally something was happening to motivate and get everybody excited instead of going out there and grind, grind, grind, grind, punt. Grind, grind, grind, punt.

Leadership: that's what we learn here at USNA. Our goal is to teach people how to motivate whomever they're leading to do the right thing. Leaders of the future must have a strong moral foundation.

Letdown is written on this game. For us, we have other factors that should motivate us, not so much that we played a good game against the Lakers. We only have 11 wins. This is an opportunity for us. Just as those guys are missing some pieces over there, they also see opportunity.

Leaving a game in the fifth inning I wouldn't think would make any pitcher happy, ... Sometimes different things will motivate people different ways.

One of the best ways to motivate consumers to try new products is through sampling. Ten percent responded they 'always' buy new products they sample, and an overwhelming 81 percent of consumers said they 'sometimes' buy new products they sample. Once a consumer tries a new product through sampling, it's more than likely they will add it to their shopping list.

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Maybe this is a wake-up call for us, too, to say 'Hey, we're shaking things up,' and, hopefully, it can help motivate us.

No one's really better than the others. We just try to work together and motivate each other.

Now we know what it feels like to be here. We know what we want to do next year. Now we see how it is losing. So it will kind of motivate us to win it.

Now, this year, all it's done is motivate us more. And today is an example of that.

If we knew why these kinds of things happen, we would be able to put ourselves in the shoes of defendants, in the shoes of mass murderers, in the shoes of people who do horrible things to young children. We'd have to become them, and that's why it's impossible in some circumstances to truly understand what may motivate people.

If they're got an eye on that basketball, it'll motivate them to reach their goals.

I am excited about this unique conference that will bring together women leaders from around the world to network, motivate each other, provide insight into their fields of expertise, and share their inspirational stories of success.

I am delighted that Val has joined our program and I am really excited for her to start working with the team. She has a proven record in terms of her work ethic, determination and ability to motivate those around her.

I am really proud of our girls. They have played hard and improved all year. Today, we came up just a little short, but hopefully that will motivate our entire team to work hard and improve during the summer.

I and others have been looking desperately for silver linings in this tragedy and if Katrina were to motivate Congress to look at this issue seriously, that would be great.

But we know Australia in Australia is a different kettle of fish and the backlash they've copped since the Ashes will motivate them to put things right.

I'm at a complete loss. When we play hard and play with some passion we're pretty good. I'm truly at a loss how to motivate us to do that.

Gilchrist has the most emotional issue. A lot of people hate illegal immigration. And on that issue alone he is going to be able to motivate (voters). There's a lot of frustration and nobody is coming up with any answers.

I don't think we need a division title game to motivate us right now. I think what we need is better play for 60 minutes.

I enjoy big crowds. They just motivate me to get focused and work hard and stay in it and play golf.

I don't think it will take very much to motivate our guys and let them know that now we have to go prove to people how good we are.

For us, our goals lie in the regular season. Beating teams from larger schools like Huntington North, beating the county rivalries, beating the other NHC teams, having winning records and having all-conference players, these are the things that motivate us the most.

If we motivate ourselves the way we did in these two games, we'll be an unstoppable team for the rest of the season.

He tried to be very thorough. Every day he'd try to motivate you. Sometimes it was to the point it was overkill, but he tried to not leave any stones unturned.

He is at his best when he is trying to bring people together, like he did last year. But that rhetoric has changed. He now has shifted over far more to the Republican mantra of dig in your heels and fight for those things which ideologically position the party to be able to motivate its base.

He is able to motivate a team as well as anyone I've seen. Any coach you hire should be competitive and intense, but his intensity is at a higher level. He just hates to lose, and he knows how to get the most out of his kids.

He does a great job of understanding how to motivate and how to speak to people. He takes that to another art form because he believes when he tells it.

There is no guarantee that Stevie is done this year. We just want to win the Stanley Cup. But if there is one thing that could motivate us more, it would be the opportunity to give Steve one more Cup before he goes out.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Heroic stories and images motivate people. Our Everest ascent for the cause of peace will provide the world with inspirational stories, images and videos that portray courage, friendship and teamwork.

Hopefully, this will motivate us, give us confidence.

Hopefully the results from this match will motivate our guys to work much harder. I was extremely pleased with Joey Russell's score today. He improved 12 strokes from his last match which I know will give him greater confidence.

Under different circumstances, that might be something I'd use to motivate me for the rest of the season. But right now, all I'm concerned about is winning games.

We look at that every morning, ... We want to remember that every day, how bad we felt. That's the only picture we left up. That will motivate us.

He'd cuss me out, and then as soon as practice was over, he'd pull me over and told me he needed me to play. It wasn't a disrespect thing, he was just trying to motivate me.

He just has a unique ability to motivate people. When the kids see what he tells them come to fruition, it's easy for them to embrace him and his style.

I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly. We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.

I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly, ... We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.

It is a challenge to keep them motivated, but they motivate themselves. We just approach it that everybody that swims brings out the best in each other.

I thought the offense could do something because they are so talented, that (the defense) would motivate them with our stops, but then I'm not down on them. If (the offense) messes up, I'll fight for them. They're my brothers, and I'll fight for my brothers.

It has been great training with a group of people, rather than doing it alone. It is a great group to run with. We support each other and motivate each other to do well. We're ready to go.

It has a ring of plausibility to it. And they found they can motivate you much faster using the government's name.

I think we, as seniors, tried to motivate people and get them going from the beginning. You get on people. You let them know just to get moving quicker and to execute faster at the beginning of practice. That's what I was doing, just encouraging a fast start to practice.

I think the reason the board of directors wants to encourage and motivate our students by offering them a scholarship at an early age is so their families can start to think about preparing, attending and paying for college.

Our biggest predictor of a student dropping out is socially and economically disadvantaged background, ... Some of the kids who don't know if they have a roof over their head, it's sort of difficult to motivate them to be in school.

Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

Our nation's Head Start students deserve to be served by the very best organizations willing to lend a helping hand, and if those organizations are not faith-based, so be it. But if they are, the faith and values that motivate them to serve their neighbors should not be held against them.

I think he's the ultimate team guy. He sacrifices everything ... does whatever it takes to score a goal, keep the puck out of the net, motivate the team. His skill is underrated. He just works so hard. I think his skill is underrated because of his shot-blocking and the big hits that he makes. He's always willing to do all the dirty work.

It definitely had an impact on the team and brought us closer together. He is taking the role he has to, doing what he can to help motivate us.

Just how I used to listen to songs and cover them, I know musicians have to motivate other musicians, so I don't find that threatening or offensive.

It is easier to penetrate your audience with one sharp, clean point or idea, thand with a maze of half-baked unremarkable, uninspiring ideas that will never motivate or be remembered.

We noticed in the first game that when she caught the ball, she didn't finish strong. So we used it not only as a teaching tool, but to motivate her. Tonight she played like a D-I player.

You just have to constantly remind them of their goals. A lot of the reason why we were on the bubble last year is because Illinois came in here and beat us on our home floor. If that won't motivate them, I don't know what will.

When it's done, that's the right time. When it happens, I'm sure it will catch me off-guard and I'll be happy. And if it doesn't happen, I'll have to do what I have to do. I just want to put on the uniform and do what I do. It's the fans that make me play the way I play. When I get the energy out of right field, especially in the Yankees uniform, those fans make me do what I do. I couldn't have played with one arm in Colorado. You can't motivate me enough to do that. Only the Yankees fans bring that out of me.

Those guys have made us focus every day. It's not as if I have to motivate them or remind them. They understand what we're trying to do. If anybody steps out of line or doesn't work as hard as we think they ought to be, the seniors set them straight.

We were hearing what some of their CD's, what they were saying on some of their CD's and frankly it got the ire up a little bit of some of the local police agencies. And that really helped to motivate everyone in terms of getting going on this investigation.

You don't really get a lot of hype out there, except when Detroit comes to town. You can hide and get away with some stuff there. And some guys do like that better. You've got to find your own ways to motivate yourselves in places like that. Here? You get a little bit of help. There's pressure for every game, partly because of you guys.

Today was tough because you have to find ways to motivate yourself.

We want to continue our academic improvement plan that we already have in place. And we know we need somebody who will be happy to involve the community in the decisions -- and motivate our staff and work with our staff.

We work hard to motivate them. Through the year they gain interest and their confidence level is high.

We worked hard to motivate them, and through the year they gained interest and had a high confidence level.