Quotes About Motivation

Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.

I got lucky. To be frank, I was surrounded by white teachers who never did the whole, 'You're never going to amount to nothing' thing you hear about in the South. Instead, they would say, 'You're really smart. You can do this.' If I hadn't gotten that, I don't know where I'd be.

I'm very happy doing what I do. And if I were in the White House I would be really interested in continuing to do what I do, which is working... That's a very cold answer, I guess, but I was trying to answer in terms of ambition.

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.

I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.

I base my game on work-rate and determination, that's what has helped me work up the leagues in previous years.

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

I get very competitive with myself and always look to better myself from my previous projects. I have learned that it's important to work on the craft than the project.

I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.

Every fight since I lost in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, every step for me is very important. Every fight becomes harder for me, more important for me than the previous fight.

Even if you have the best intentions, there may sometimes be a price or a cost or a pushback against what you're doing.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

I take a lot of personal pride and motivation to be able to make a difference in areas that may fall through the cracks in R&D across the industry.

What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.

In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

I wanted to be a priest. I could have done that. I wanted to be a doctor. I could have done that. Circumstances didn't lead me to it, so my fallback option was business. I wasn't really motivated to this.

I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I knew I wanted to go to college because nobody in my family had. So I was like, 'I'll go and be a theater major.'

I feel that when you are passionate about what you do, money will follow. If money becomes the primary factor, passion goes down the drain.