Quotes About Motivation

It's good to have young players around you.

It's so awesome to see a lot of the young talent really grow and compete every single day.

As a young woman, I was fortunate to have the leadership of Jeanette Hayner, the courage of Jennifer Dunn, the faith of Elisabeth Elliot, and the indomitable spirit of Margaret Thatcher to guide and motivate me.

I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman.

To any young women out there who might be thinking about taking up darts, I would just say, 'Go for it.'

It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.

It's so great to be able to inspire these young women today to get involved in male-dominated subjects.

I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.

A lot of young women play soccer, and it's wonderful to give them something to aspire to.

If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be do what you're really interested in and what drives and motivates you.

When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.

I am inspired by many young women, not only in my industry but across others.

I've met so many young women who are interested in being involved in music and I think, 'Why are you not actually doing it?' And I hope that if I tell my story, about the setbacks I had, they might not be afraid.

It's fun working with smart, young women.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

I'm just going to keep going. That's been my motto since I was younger, through all adversity and all obstacles.