Motivation Loss Quotes

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.

When I'm not feeling something, I have a very hard time doing it.

I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.

Depression is inertia.

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

I lost my ability to will things to happen.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

You don't always want to go do the same thing day after day because your body, as well as your mind, is not going to be as stimulated. You're not going to want to work as hard or be as motivated.

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Felix Magath works with pressure. At first, we didn't know where we stood with him. That prompted the players to give their best because they wanted to play, but after a while the players knew where they stood and Magath no longer received the same effect.

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

When you have been working so hard to reach a specific goal and then you realise that ambition, it's not always easy to raise yourself for another objective.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

I was a really good student, first, second grade, third grade, and then fourth grade a little bit. And then I don't know what happened. I became a very terrible student. I wish I took it more serious.

It's not easy for a player who considers him or herself to be a proper batter to then adjust down the order. Put anyone there and the scores won't necessarily come. You can lose a bit of love for it, too.

When you set goals and you reach those goals in mid-August and early September, there's nothing to look forward to. You sort of lose your drive.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.