Quotes About Motivation

People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

I hope somewhere along the way, I've inspired someone to do something. ... And I hope they say that I was nice and polite.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

I really want to help people. I really want to give somebody that hope that they need to keep going.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

Encouragement and hope are the two most powerful qualities any person can provide to others.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.

I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.