Quotes About Motivation

Sometimes I can't sleep at night because I'm so excited to work on sprinting the next day, because I'm such a bad sprinter.

No one likes going out and sprinting 20 sprints, but you do it because it's going to help you.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Fans give me abuse all the time. Nearly every team does that. If I wasn't a good player, you wouldn't feel like you need to boo me the whole game. So do that if it makes you feel better, but it does spur me on. It's like, 'You expect something from me; that's why you're doing this,' so I don't mind it. They can boo me all day long, really.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Hunger's a great spur.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

I had this extraordinary role-model of rags to riches success in my grandfather and yet I was a girl, and girls in a very military family were not meant to have professional careers. I think that created the spur and edge to drive me on.

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.

You will always have people to prove wrong. I always have done and I always will. I use that to spur me on and stay hungry and that's the big aim.

When the crowd's against you, sometimes that can spur you on alone.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

I don't take any notice of negative stuff said on social media. If anything it spurs me on more.

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.

The crowd lifts you and spurs you on. And I don't get rattled - that's my strength, I think.

Whether it is my return to Test or not, I have always bowled with heart and soul. A good performance always spurs you on.

If you don't have competition in a squad, you can have complacency - and, if you have complacency, you won't win.