Quotes About Motivation

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.

I know sometimes in the off-season I have to motivate myself to get on the ice because I know there's so long until the competitions begin again.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

I've been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I'm going to play defense. But I've never been in a frame of mind that my defense is going to generate my offense.

Just play hard, compete, energy, hit the offensive glass.

The most offensive thing is when people say, 'Everything you do is for the money.'

Everybody wants to go out and play hard for a guy where they know if they give their all on the defensive end, they're going to get rewarded on the offensive end.

I have fans from every level of the fitness world, whether it's the elite competitor or just someone living a healthy lifestyle, and it's been my goal since day one to make sure that my brand has something to offer everyone.

I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

You have to go out and find a way to compete every day. I know what I can do and what I can offer the team.

'Aiyyaa' was not the first film that I was offered in Hindi... it was the first film that I wanted to do in Hindi.

I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in.

I like to perform. I hope I keep on getting good offers.

If you stop getting work, than it should stress you. If the offers are coming in, than that's okay.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I was considering running for political office.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.