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Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better. -- Sasha Grey
I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me. -- Jonny Wilkinson
To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success. -- Hugh Jackman
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. -- Huey Newton
That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud. -- Aaron Rodgers
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order. -- Viswanathan Anand
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder. -- Natalie Gulbis
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. -- Henry Giroux
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
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. -- Pope Francis
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. -- Roberto Duran
If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights. -- Rand Paul
This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice. -- Jim Walsh
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
I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. -- Charlie Puth
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
What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape. -- Hayley Williams
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 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
The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field. -- Alice Dreger
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
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
I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me. -- Ricky Ponting
I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power. -- Alex Gibney
Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more. -- Ronaldinho
It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well. -- Morgan Wootten
Misery motivates, not utopia. -- Karl Marx
You never know what motivates you. -- Cicely Tyson
Good art inspires; Good design motivates. -- Otl Aicher
Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt. -- Thomas Young
before speaking, notice what motivates your words. -- Surya Das
I think envy motivates a lot of people. -- Shia LaBeouf
Well, love motivates me in everything I do. -- Vin Diesel
Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions -- John Piper
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. -- Eric Maisel
Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. -- Henry Cloud
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. -- Harriet B. Braiker
As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. -- Peter Drucker
What motivates me more than money are God and my family. -- Albert Pujols
I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me. -- Chamique Holdsclaw
There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Its important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else. -- Candy Crowley
Anything which makes you feel tiny also motivates you to be big! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. -- Veronica Roth
It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else. -- Candy Crowley
What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of. -- Mark Zuckerberg
What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of. -- Sander Levin
That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person. -- John Gray
This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me. -- David Dinkins
Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next. -- Christina Aguilera
Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going. -- Dee Dee Artner
I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me. -- Jonny Wilkinson
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy. -- Barbara Corcoran
Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy. -- Molly Friedenfeld
Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged. -- Reuben Singh
What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do . . . fight -- Anderson Silva
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. -- Carol S. Dweck
Anybody who says I can't do something, it just motivates me more than you could believe. -- Kevin Harvick
Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things. -- Robert Reynolds
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is. -- Don Johnson
The thing that motivates me most in my workouts is when I can learn something new. -- Erin Heatherton
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! -- Peter Drucker
Attitude is everything. It motivates action, which increases productivity and improves morale, which perpetuates a positive attitude. -- Robert Urich
Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win. -- Auliq Ice
I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%. -- Sheryl Swoopes
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. -- Ben Horowitz
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living. -- Edward Burtynsky
Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me. -- Bill Rodgers
It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level. -- Michael Vick
True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself. -- Myles Munroe
My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle. -- James Frey
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
What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action? -- Gloria Feldt
Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map. -- Ed Seykota
After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this. -- Jeet Banerjee
You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them. -- Robin Farina
The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids. -- Oren Moverman
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
To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me. -- Ranbir Kapoor
The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day. -- RuPaul
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other. -- Margaret Heffernan
The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships. -- Joan Benoit
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
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. -- Matt Ridley
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
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For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder! -- Summer Sanders
The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million? -- Luis von Ahn
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny. -- Mike Nichols
There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday. -- Ogwo David Emenike
I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me. -- Jeff Raikes
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
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. -- Eve Arnold
THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man! -- Candice Bergen
True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result. -- Gabriel Brunsdon
Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul. -- Ordway Tead
What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music. -- Lenny Kravitz
A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people . -- Peter Drucker
I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress. -- Martha Roby
Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment. -- Gary Chapman
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
I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival. -- Jack White
The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first. -- Robert Crumb
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one. -- Stewart Butterfield
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it. -- Howard Zinn
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. -- Henry Cloud
Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness. -- Nancy Etcoff
We need to believe in a bright, compelling and sustainable future. Fear neither motivates people long-term nor brings out the best in them. Hope is a powerful motivator. -- Arron Wood
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action. -- David Brooks
The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. -- Claire Denis
Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head. -- Nita Engle
If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it. -- Walter Russell
A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans. -- Bill W. Clayton
Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best. -- Eknath Easwaran
Anytime you announce your dream; two things happen, it's either it motivates you to get it done or the feeling of accomplishment sets in and discourages you from pursuing it -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear. -- Dave Barry
Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work. -- David S. Baxter
You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her. -- Tim Kaine
Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
You cannot be president of the United States if people below $50,000 don't think you care about them and you have no real communication that motivates them to vote for you. -- Jeff Sessions

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