36 Great Words of Motivation

Motivation is something that is driven by an individuals level of interest and reward. Each personality type may consist of different characteristics that require certain instances to occur in order to increase motivation. The following series of words of wisdom aim to bring out the benefit and encouragement of driving more results in your personal and professional life.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs — ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. In the end, people will understand.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them.

If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

If your mind can accept that something is achievable, it will find a way to attain that thing.

Imagine with all your mind, believe with all your heart, achieve with all your might.

It is your decisions not your conditions that truly shape the quality of your life.

It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do.

Let your faith be bigger than your fear.

Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile.

Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly about you, no one would believe it.

Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.

May you see sunshine where others see shadows and opportunities where others see obstacles.

My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The good stuff is always worth the work it takes.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by chasing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

We can do anything we want to as long as we stick to it long enough.

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

We cannot exhaust the creative power of our minds.

We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing.

When things aren’t adding up in your life, start subtracting.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

The below infographic provides an overview to the best tips that will encourage increase the motivation among a group of individuals. Many people require the ability to engage in an activity that they find interesting and satisfying in order to become motivated. Those that focus on more external factors look to earning of rewards to drive engagement. Challenging oneself or each other is just a single example to the types of ways you can increase motivation.