Quotes About Motivation

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.

Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.'

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.

It was clear in my mind that my belief in God, coupled with the desire to work hard to serve others, meant I was destined to succeed.

I haven't come from a background where I've had it imbued in me from an early age that I'm destined to lead or to rule.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.

When I first got into the sport, or first got into athletics, I always felt that sense of responsibility that I was destined for something bigger, that I was going to do something major.

Excuses destroy success every time.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

It's truly amazing to see where determination and drive will lead you.

The determination that I have to be a champion - whether it's in or out of the ring - is just so amazing.

Anything is possible with hard work and determination. That's something I tell kids all the time when they ask questions.

When you look at youth, they want to aspire to somebody. You can see that with him you have to work hard, and that's what you bring if you have someone like Ronaldo who embodies hard work and determination.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

Anil Kapoor is fantastic. Words fall short to see his determination.

When you are getting warmed up and you hear the fans there, singing your name, when you feel that the fans support you like this, it gives you even more determination inside.

I think probably all of my determination and eagerness to want to play professional sport came from my family.

I just had this drive, this determination to do something different and to take my career in a different direction.

I always believed that I would make it to the first team through hard work and determination and I didn't let anybody get in the way of my focus, even my dad when he had questions.