Quotes About Motivation

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that seperate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

Feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune.

Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.

I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

People want to feel hopeful.

Some people say they want things, but when push comes to shove they don't do what is necessary to achieve it.