Quotes About Motivation

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I need someone to be like, 'I can beat Bert in a marathon.' And then my Mickey Mantle genes will kick in and I'll start going, 'No you can't. You can't beat me, because I'll beat myself.'

We build OYO with basis of building a team which is not just great for our segment, but we possibly have the best team any start-up can possibly have.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

I just started running as part of a nutrition program, to just get a little cardio in, but I was not a runner per se before that. I started about March 1 of 2010.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

Let's go, champ' started as a way to motivate myself.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.

At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

If I'm going to be a sixth man, I'm going to go for Sixth Man of the Year. If I'm a starter, I'm definitely trying to be a great player either way.

I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

I said before, I want to be a starter, I want to be an all-star - not a borderline all-star.

I train every day to be a starter.

I don't want to be a backup. I want to be a starter.

I was not looking for the money. I was looking for the opportunity that I was going to be a starter and play a decent amount of minutes.