“To everyone who gets me, thank you. To everyone who doesn't, thank you too. You give me the motivation to keep succeeding just to piss you off.”— Shane Dawson, amazon.com
“This is the most critical line in the dirt in our state's history. Not only for the disaster but for the opportunity it has created. In the past, we have either not had the motivation or the money or the consensus.”— Jim Brown, successories.com
“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”— Tim Duncan, successories.com
“The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.”— Tim Duncan, successories.com
“I stay motivated by listening to myself. That's all we can do in the end. You should, too.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“My motivation is love for life, love for my kids and people I know and don't know, and love for our planet and the Universe. It never stops.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“There’s only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.”— Ted Williams, beabetterhitter.com
“Bobby, it don't matter how you stand; it matter where you end up!”— Roberto Clemente, en.wikiquote.org
“He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“You just don’t give up. Its lame. You’re not a quitter. That’s not who you are.”— Alex Karev, imdb.com
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org
“She said, ‘You cannot hide forever, though you may try. I’ve seen you in the kitchen, in the garden. I’ve seen the things you have sewn – curtains of dawn, twilight blankets and dresses for the sisters like a garden of stars. I have heard the stories you tell. You are the one who transforms, who cre…”— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com
“But the woman came to her then. The woman with hair of red like roses, hair of white like snowfall. She was young and old. She was blind and could see everything. She spoke softly, in whispers, but her voice carried across the mountain ranges like sleeping giants, the cities lit like fairies and the…”— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com
“never, adv.: I use this to mark my intentions; I cannot guarantee it or its opposite with absolute certainty.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Why try to predict what something is capable of or what it’s going to do? Instead, why not just make a runway for ideas to take flight—and then enjoy watching them soar.”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com