Quotes About Motivation

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'. This doesn't make them bad people; it just makes them human.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. -Bruce Barton

Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.

If anyone has it in him to work hard, he can rise from the earth and touch the sky.

They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the unearned things to keep falling from the sky.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.

I didn't really lift consistently before I got to the NBA. In college, I would skip out on it or not do as many reps because, honestly, I didn't like it. I was like 'Man, I'm not going to put on weight, I'm always going to be skinny, I'm not going to be big as the sky.'

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

It's hard to slack off when you have these guys out there going 100 miles an hour around the ice.

I don't think any player will miss a grand slam if they can play.

This is just a 'Boom!' of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.

Writing is still on my slate.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

I love what I do. I'm passionate about what I do. I live for what I do. And every morning, I can't wait to stop sleeping and to jump up and get out of bed and start doing what I do.

I was performing in front of mirrors forever. Just jumping around my room at, like, three in the morning when everybody else was sleeping. So when it came time, I was so ready.

I'm so sleepy most of the time, but I guess it's 'cause I'm constantly doing things and trying to move forward and set up for the master plan. The master plan is to be, like, little baby Oprah, with my own production company, maybe my own channel, inspire millions.

I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.