Quotes About Motivation

Once you get into a real good situation, where somebody really believes in you, that's what you can take off to a whole other level.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

I've operated out of a space where I don't think there was a whole lot of room for self-doubt, not believing in where I can get to and what I wanted to achieve.

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

The most important thing is believing in yourself.

Success isn't anything to do with being lucky. It's knowing what you want, taking the necessary action, and believing you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

When you get a chance to play, if you help them win a game, then the team will start believing that the player can also do this for the team. So building that confidence for yourself and the team is very important.

I was going into things believing I can win it but now I know I can it - the difference in that is massive for me and it will make me work harder.

I have always been interested in believing in yourself.

Believing in myself has been the key, and I never stopped believing in my dreams.

Having people doubt you is what gives you that fire in your belly.

I want to win, I've still got the fire in the belly to win, it's just the old utensils are not working as good as they used to.

I'm always thinking to myself about getting the belt back.

I can definitely get the belt. It's something I always wake up believing every time I train.

This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our best. He believed that doing well was all mental, a simple matter of harnessing whatever energy was available.

There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act—a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.

The zealot may be outwardly motivated by the anticipation of a great reward at the other end—wealth, fame, eternal salvation—but the real recompense is probably the obsession itself. This is no less true for the religious fanatic than for the fanatical pianist or fanatical mountain climber. As a result of his (or

I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier.

Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams," he penned to a girl named Vanessa. "Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming." Doug

the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest. What I was doing up there had almost nothing in common with bungee jumping or skydiving or riding a motorcycle at 120 miles per hour.

Aí está o nó do dilema que todo alpinista no Everest acaba tendo que enfrentar: para ter sucesso, você precisa estar bastante motivado, mas, se a motivação for excessiva, é provável que você morra.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane—as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout—there may be no more potent force than religion.