Quotes About Motivation

Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.

I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.

Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.

Initially, when I started going to the gym, I would get bored easily.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.

Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.

It's always better for the players being injured to come back to a winning team; it takes pressure off their shoulders.

I always like to keep busy, I always say if you're not injured then you should fight.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

Your little Obama voice: 'Yes you can.' Listen to your inner Obama-voice.

If you're not playing with any confidence, then you're not going to play well at all. You've always got to have that inner confidence, and that comes with the goals.

You need a certain amount of inner aggression, a bit of anger about you and the others in order to give your maximum.