Quotes About Motivation

Setting targets is very important in my life; I always have targets to fulfil.

I'm not getting bored with cycling or winning - I love it. But I need to give myself new targets all the time.

Getting a reward for reaching certain sales targets is certainly attractive.

Do I think I can get 25 goals? Yes. If you set targets, they must be sky high because if you finish just under it's still going to be a good achievement.

If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can't play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.

I love practising, ever since I was that kid in the field, but I don't set targets for each session or anything.

Everyone has to have the same targets, and the fans are very important for every team, for the motivation of the players. It's the same in every club.

I'm used to realising all my dreams and targets through my determination and ambition.

You have every right to set yourselves targets and whether you achieve it or not is entirely a different matter but at least you have to be ambitious and set yourself challenging goals.

I train hard, but having a fight on the cards so often gives me targets and focus.

The thing is athletes get more confidence the more they race, the more they are hitting personal targets - it just gives you confidence.

I am a morning person and the first task for me in the morning is to hit the gym.

Getting back into shape is always a difficult task for me.

It's no simple task getting the very best from each and every member of the squad.

When I'm being interviewed, presumably it's because people want to know how I feel about something or what my motivation is, not because they want to hear what I sound like in English. I wouldn't be true to the task if I responded in my unrefined English.

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion.

I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.

Right from my childhood, whenever I have taken up a task, I have been an achiever.