Quotes About Motivation

I've got to give props to my dad. He got me into the UFC and the MMA scene to begin with.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Often people ask me what my job is, and I say, honestly, it is to make others successful, and the more you do that, the more you will see that you create prosperity.

When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

On game days, I like a huge breakfast. It'll be some eggs, preferably an omelet, some protein. It has to be a huge.

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.

My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

I've always been the guy that loved being scared or loved having pressure on me, because I always wanted to prove myself wrong and always wanted to prove that I could do it.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.

I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.