Quotes About Motivation

If the captain stands still and looks clueless, then it spreads to the whole team.

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.

Mexico and Italy are countries where you can almost taste the atmosphere from the teeming stands when you're on the field, and that's a real motivation for a player.

I played in JV games on Saturday mornings when my mom was the only person in the stands.

That roar of the crowd motivates you. And sometimes when you are in a fight, and the pain is kicking in, you hear the crowd chanting your name, it helps you to push through. Fighting in empty stands is more demanding.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

A man can't just sit around.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.