Motivation Quotes — Page 37

Spiritual Leader

“We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.”

Motivation Determination Optimism

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Dana Hill

Actress

“You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.”

Fall Motivation Feel Good

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Denis Waitley

Author, Motivational Speaker

“Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.”

Motivation Force

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Brené Brown

Researcher, author, speaker

“The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.”

Powerful Struggle

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Dr. Brian Goldman

Physician

“The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.”

Running Inspiration Motivation

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Chelsea Martin

Artist

“I was re-experiencing these things that happened a long time ago, and I'm trying to relive it now, and I'm bringing all of my current motivations and personality into that which were not there at the time. It's hard to remember exactly who I was when I was ten, fifteen.”

Long Motivation Personality

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Cheryl Strayed

Author, Memoirist

“I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters. And then smile very serenely until they say, Oh.”

People Writing Motivation

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Philanthropist

“A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.”

Teacher Inspiration Motivation

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Bruce Springsteen

Musician, Singer-songwriter

“And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.”

Moving Song Motivation

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Brené Brown

Researcher, author, speaker

“When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.”

Powerful Inspiration Motivation

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

“For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.”

Effort Motivation Compassion

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

“If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.”

Mean Art Motivation

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