Quotes About Motivation

You can't expect a poodle to guard your house the way a Doberman pinscher does, and you can't expect a Doberman pinscher to jump in your lap the way a poodle does. Some people are just animals of a certain nature, and they are always going to have certain impulses that motivate them.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren't that many great pop songs.

I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.

It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.

We do this on our free time and because we think it is fun. But we do not have an obligation to feed content to organizations that knowingly try to distort what we are doing and portray us as crooks.

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

For me, what is more important is the challenge the character poses for me as an actor.

I think the only expectation is that I put on myself to do everything right and to put myself in a position to perform as best that I can.

As a kid growing up in Canton, Ohio, you never see yourself in a position to play in the NBA, much less have somebody pay you to wear shoes.

Most great men start in that position, with very little and that's what motivates them to get where they're going.