Quotes About Motivation

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you'll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am at times - I push myself to be better, constantly.

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.