Quotes About Motivation

Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has often spurred human beings to unusual success.

Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage, do you want to be in film, do you want to be a comic actor? Do you just want to make it for the money and capitalize on your look and do commercials and soaps?'

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.

Having this message of sobriety and recovery to blast out into the world is also very powerful and kind of the reason why I'm on this planet, I think; it's one of my purposes.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.

I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women's soccer.

I wasn't a cheerleader in high school, but I was the leader of my soccer team.

I love the U.S.A. women's soccer team. I'm really a fan of them, how they play as a team, the spirit they have. They really motivate a lot of people.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.

Well, Argentina has a big idols in soccer, in different sport. I'm just doing my job, trying to be an example for the kids, to teach them that you have to do effort to get your goals in your life.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to contribute to the community or bring about social justice. I had no such high goals.

People complain about not having a social life and always working. But I enjoy working.

When you want someone to notice you, there's one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?

A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.

I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.

My contention is that most students get distracted by music and social media because our current state of education is not sufficiently engaging to command their full attention.