Quotes About Motivation

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it's easier to capture the big picture at the end.

I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'

Coming from a smaller school, you kind of have a chip on your shoulder, so to speak.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

I make a little goal every day and work toward achieving it - even if it's the smallest little thing.

When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life.

My brother was really smart, and I definitely had a little ADD - I was very creative and active - and my mom thought, 'Why should I send them to school when they can work at a higher level at home?'

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.

From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

I'm working with Al Haymon, who is the best in boxing and he manages my career, and every time I fight he tells me, 'Look, you're only getting better and better, smarter and smarter, keep trying and one day we're going to get that big shot.' And sure enough, it happened.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

I like making players better and smarter.

I've become smarter, more disciplined and more hungry.