Quotes About Motivation

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one.

We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.

It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

One of the things that I feel very blessed about is that I was given a fair amount of confidence as a young person and I constantly meet young people, even today, maybe even more today, when it is clearly not a given that they will have a reasonable amount of confidence.

I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.

I, for one, want to make sure we give every young person the chance to find the fuel for their confidence, something that will power their ambition.

I will always encourage any young person, especially young black females. If you want to be involved in sport please do it.

If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.

The most important thing for me is to feel that young players want to learn on the training pitch. If they spend 10 hours sitting around playing PlayStation, that's their business.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

Young players are more hungry because they have not achieved what some of the older players have.

My discipline in myself has got me where I am. I try to emphasise that to young players.

The young players are only thinking about what they can win and that can sometimes be an advantage for you.

Just like all young players, there is a difference between being involved and just participating.

I know all young players have to work hard.