Quotes About Motivation

I started slow, and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all.

I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.

Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.

All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away.

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.

I didn't look at age as being a reason to stop running or become slower.

Was I a businessman to start with? I'm not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice.

You start off slowly, getting 'better and 'better, getting that confidence in yourself. It brought that out of me which I had inside but, you know, didn't want to express it - but as a captain you have to.

My mom always told me to set goals for myself. And slowly going through and checking those things off of my list, that feels like success to me.

Sometimes taking it slowly, taking a player through the paces is the best way to keep him wanting more.

I almost stopped playing. For three or four years it was really tough mentally. 'Then slowly, slowly, slowly... my team told me to keep going.

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

I'm much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated.

You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.

Finding time to fit in exercise can be tough - it's easy to fall into a slump.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

My role model is Sly Stallone.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.

You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

I'm incredibly passionate about business, about small businesses, and about kids being given the right skills so they are successful.