Quotes About Motivation

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Whatever your cause, whatever your motivation, I hope you'll agree with me that volunteer service is an extraordinary gift.

One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.

As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.

During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

I think if you start to feel secure, you don't do as well.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

I just love achieving my goals. I'm a goal seeker.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

My dad plays every point with me. He sees the game so well, and knows exactly what to say to make me play better.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I wanted to prove to myself I can do something on my own. Not for the world, but for myself. To have that self-confidence.

Always have self-confidence because that can take you a long way.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.