Quotes About Motivation

A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

Keep the dream alive; hit the snooze button!

As long as you're up, get me a Grant's.

The only person you need to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.

Work like a captain. Play like a pirate.

The man who rolls up his shirt sleeves is rarely in danger of losing his shirt.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

Even if you don't become a professional athlete, the experience of working with a team, knowing how to set goals, and working every day to figure out how to accomplish those goals definitely gives you confidence to apply those same characteristics to other life challenges.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

My motivation in personal and professional life is my dad because the way he has played and inspired many other players to play cricket the correct way. He had a great professional life and has always been an outspoken man.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

If things are just gliding along easily and there's no real obstacles or hurdles, those typically aren't my most productive times, personally or professionally.

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

Ultimately, the ability to inspire people to live healthier and happier lives is what excites me both personally and professionally.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

If you deliver professionals something that makes them feel stronger, then they will follow.

I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym.

My mother was a professor and she would wake me up at 5:30 every morning. I've had that routine since I was a child. So it's not tough to wake up and face the camera at any time now.

The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English Department. And through that, I started writing plays.