Quotes About Motivation

As a director the first level of management is people. You have to deal with about 100 creative egos and make sure they subscribe to your vision and give you their best.

The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape for artists.

Once you sign a contract that states that you're going to have to fight this other man for a substantial amount of money, things change psychologically.

I feel like every single fight, the difference in my game, the difference that you see in Greg Hardy, the fighter, has been substantial.

Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.

The people I've been around who've been successful - be it players, executives, coaches - there's no substitute for a hard day's work.

My mom has a very subtle way of encouraging.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.

I don't know what drives me to succeed.

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

I enjoy helping young children succeed.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

I've got family, people that really care and want to see me succeed and push me.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

'They' are the people that don't believe in you, that say that you won't succeed. We stay away from 'They.'

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.