Quotes About Motivation

When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.

If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.

Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a serious disincentive from embarking on really important, vital projects.

Confidence is a vital part of any team and any squad. You have to earn that though.

Confidence, it turns out, is as vital to a players success as is talent.

Imagine if the people who have lived and learned still had the vitality to act upon the hard learned lessons - and not just share in a conversation, but lead.

I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.

When I was a kid growing up, I ate my vitamins, worked out because Hulk Hogan told me to.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

Of all the great moments at Butler, I still remember the losses most vividly. I don't know why. I guess that's kind of what drives you.

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.'

I was a vocal presence in the dressing room as an 18-year-old at Leeds.

When I'm in a situation where I'm working physically, I think I can push myself mentally. I'll never quit. But I think mentally, I probably suffer a little bit with self-confidence and stuff like that. I'm probably not very vocal and I'm not much of a leader.

It's important to be vocal, and to be fair, I've always had that in me, to be honest. One of the things my dad has always said to me is make sure you're vocal, and before the game, I always get a text off him telling me to do the things well and again, 'Be vocal, Dec.'

Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.

I try and be super vocal on the field because that's what we need, and that's what I want to do.

I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work.

When I'm talking to my teammates, being the vocal leader, going up and down, pushing everyone, they tend to follow.

I'm going to be a more vocal leader.

I like Kehlani a lot because she's on her grind; she does everything herself. She's writing her own music and, you know, putting all the vocals together, and she's just dope. She just reminds me a lot of me.

Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.

I knew that I wanted to intern at 'Teen Vogue' from the moment the first issue hit newsstands. Luckily, the team at Polo Ralph Lauren, where I interned during high school, really believed in me and arranged for an interview with the editors.

I wake up and I say to myself 'How can I delight Vogue?' and usually I succeed pretty quickly.