Quotes About Motivation

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

What motivates me is not staying still. I want to be busy, and I think too many good actors are left by the wayside through no fault of their own, but because there aren't necessarily enough opportunities out there.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

As much as I reiterate my affection for Elon, there is nothing Elon does that we cannot do.

Incentives matter. Dreams matter. We cannot strip incentives away. Dreams are the foundation of the American dream, which is so intrinsic to who we are.

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

I always wanted to make sure that within my unit that I was never the weak person. So I made sure that my physical fitness was top.

Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.

I decided to work really hard in 1987. I hired Matt Doyle, a former pro player, and he helped me with my physical training. Lendl was the first to focus on that. He used to be weak, physically and mentally.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same thing as saying they're incompatible. It's just that I think some of the traditional reasons for belief, going back thousands of years, are rather undermined.

It's nice to be cheered, but I'll always have a good attitude on the pitch.

Going out on to the pitch and being mentally free is a massive thing.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

I think it's really important for managers to be liked by his players because ultimately, on the pitch, those players will give everything for their manager.

If I go on to the pitch, do things well and the fans love me and my team-mates, too, we take on that energy which can change a game.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.