Quotes About Motivation

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

It has been a difficult journey for me, which started where I used to live: in Virar. All credit to my dad, as he was the only one who took me everywhere. He used to take me to matches and practices, and they were all far away from my home in Virar.

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don't. But I like the result... I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it's very hard to get something done correctly, but then the idea flashes through of how to fix it. And I get encouraged. And other ideas flow.

You can do whatever you want, you can run a lot, but playing the game and practicing, it's just different.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

Parents write to me, or come up to me after shows and ask me 'How can we get our children to be as excited as you obviously were as a child?' It's not necessarily what they want to hear when I say, 'Don't make them practise!'

As long as your eyes aren't going, or you've got some back or neck problems, then you can play this game as long as you're motivated to practise.

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

Sometimes you have to praise players.

I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

I just have to keep working, just stay on top of my game, stay on top of my weight and stay prayed up.

When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.

One of the neatest things I saw with the team at Ohio State - and we preach about it all the time as coaches - is that the team genuinely played for the happiness, success and rings on the finger for the guy next to them.

I preach about getting the ball in the air.

I am not a preacher; I'm a reacher.