Quotes About Motivation

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

I promise to keep doing my best, living up to my fans' love and supports.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

I'm not particularly interested in working with movie stars. It depends on where you come from, I suppose. Why are you making films? The reason I want make films is because they convey ideas. I think some directors make films because they want to hang out with movie stars and be part of Hollywood. They want to be a star themselves.

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.

My life path number is 7. One of the qualities is leadership. If I'm not being a leader, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I have this firm belief that when I step on the field that I believe I'm the best player on the field, but I also believe that I'm not good enough yet. Because of that, I need to make sure that I'm striving to improve every aspect of my game.

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

If I come across a good project, I will surely take it up.

I will surely watch 'Toofaan.'

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.