Quotes About Motivation

Hope is an illusion a dangling carrot something to keep us going but going towards what

By the time Carl was four, Feynman was actively lobbying against a first-grade science book proposed for California schools. It began with pictures of a mechanical wind-up dog, a real dog, and a motorcycle, and for each the same question: "What makes it move?" The proposed answer—"Energy makes it move"—enraged him.

I think that when we were younger, the fact of knowing our uncle Derrike won the Daytona 500. We were racing go-karts then, and I think that really kind of motivated us.

My uncle is just, like, always pushing me to be better, be a man, and showing me the ropes of the game.

My uncle used to say, 'You'll go on and become the dream of the family.' That's how I got my name.

My uncle saw me fight in front of my house and one day he wanted to turn something negative into a positive, so he took me to the gym and I've been there ever since.

Valentin Chmerkovskiy

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. It was more about what she did than what she said, and she made sure I was the best I could be.

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

I could easily be defending my title against top contenders in the Top 10, but if they haven't been champions or their record's not perfect, it doesn't really excite me. It doesn't motivate me. But that's why I'm facing guys like Dejan Zlaticanin, Sergey Lipinets, undefeated champions.

Always being an underdog, always being the player or the person nobody really knew, that always kept a chip on my shoulder.

I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.

Brady Hoke is an underdog. He has an attitude, a chip. He's self-made. He always has something to prove.

I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

I'm always going to feel like the underdog. I feel like that's the kind of mind-set I want to have and if I do lose that mind-set, I want somebody to slap me in the face and say, 'Hey, pick it up and get back to the roots.'

Spiderman is the underdog, and I love underdogs.

I perform better when I'm the underdog and everyone is against me. I thrive on that.

Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play.