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Quotes About Motivation

I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.
~ Steve Wozniak
Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
~ Venus Williams
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
~ Ralph Marston
You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
~ Kate McKinnon
You always have to believe in yourself, and I had that from karting.
~ Max Verstappen
Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself.
~ Itzhak Perlman
Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
~ Ice Cube
I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
~ Patrice Motsepe
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
~ Gerry Cooney
What I kind of want to spread as my message to all kinds of youth that I get to reach out to is, you can do cool stuff; you've just got to put in time and be dedicated.
~ Ann Makosinski
Good on all the youths that are trying to do something different and do something positive.
~ AJ Tracey
I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.
~ Kerri Strug
It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
~ Ewan McGregor
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
~ Major Taylor
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
~ Major Taylor
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
~ Abdullah II of Jordan
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
~ Peter Davison
I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
~ Patrick Roy
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
~ Linton Kwesi Johnson
Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
Once I got both my hips replaced, I could start working out and going Pilates, and it's helped me be more active and youthful.
~ Jane Kaczmarek