Quotes About Motivation

I'd like to write about whatever is going on with me at that point of time or situations I'm - which I'm sure a lot of people can relate with. I mean, I'm a deep person. I'd like to dig deep into the psyche, but at the same time, you make things that are gonna lift everyone up.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

Every fight is won in the gym. The hard part of our job is getting in the gym every day, six days a week.

I work out six days per week all year round and usually work out two hours per day, and on top of that, I like power walking 15 to 30 kilometres each day.

I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'

It's the audiences that inspire me to keep going. I feel that we all grew up together. The majority now are the people who were raised on the music in the Sixties.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football - which still happens today - and I used that to inspire me.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation.

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most.

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

My family and parents were very influential in my skating career.

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.