Quotes About Motivation

You've only got so much plot, character and psychological capital. One day it will be gone and you don't know when that day is. The fear is that it'll sneak up on you when you're not looking.

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

Nobody wants to stay in Green Bay and run laps in the snow and go boxing in the gym. Everybody has what works for them, and I feel as though this works for me - it keeps me hungry, it keeps me with that edge. Other guys get a hard day's work in, but they're on the beach afterward.

I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.

I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.

I have three brothers, and they were all snowboarders, and I always looked up to them. That's the reason I started snowboarding. I always wanted to be just as good as they were.

Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.

So many people get content. So many people stop when they're at the top. They'll let someone take their place because they're relaxing. That's not going to happen.

I'm quite proud that I've inspired so many people.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.

In this day and age, when there are so many people creating work online and writing their own shows, I wouldn't tell another actor, 'If you can do anything else go do that.' I would tell them to figure out the story they want to tell, to figure out what artists inspire you and why, and then figure out a way you can create that for yourself.

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.

I think I am very proud that my father has inspired so many people through his work.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

So many people ask me this, but I tell them I look forward to each day because I love what I do.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

The way I look and the shape I am in, I've had so many people tell me, 'You'll never make it because of the way you look.' But that never stopped me - it may even have motivated me a little.

It is an inspiration to have so many people support me.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

There were so many people who didn't believe in me.

The story of 'Rudy' has almost transcended me. I'm the representation, but there are so many people out there that identify with it.