Quotes About Motivation

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.

I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

Having someone breathing on your neck can be good for you.

We need the right attitude and the right motivation - that can decide the match above everything else.

You need just as much drive to be a good businessman as you do to excel as an athlete.

School was very important. But I needed to watch basketball.

No matter how many years you have been dancing, I feel a guru is always needed for motivation and inspiration.

Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

I'm a great believer in needing things that give us some hope.