Quotes About Motivation

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

What I really want to do is, first of all, get my music out to the world. And then I would really just like to reach other kids all over the world and tell them to believe in themselves and prove to people that you can do anything you want.

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

Maurizio Sarri is one of those managers who can get the best out of players who aren't necessarily world class which he proved at Napoli.

I'm a guy who is going to go out there and do his best, and I'm a guy who has always gone out there and proved people wrong.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

It could be said that, had it not already existed, corporations might have invented positive psychology themselves.

He was the kind of man who lit the world on fire and then fanned the flames so it burned hotter.

I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do. - Dr. Barbara McClintock

have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal.

There are two distinct kinds of meanness - those which come of loving money and of disliking it. Mine was the latter sort.