Quotes About Motivation

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

I always beat the sun up in the morning. It's the secret to why I'm double trouble.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

When I see out-of-shape, overweight people huffing and puffing in the gym, my eyes well up with tears of pride. I want to walk over to them, hug them, and say, 'Good on you for getting in here. It gets better!' You know why? Because they're challenging themselves.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

I told my boys this: Somebody gotta be better than Michael Jordan. Why not you?

Why not have a motivation beyond me to get to a healthy weight? Every actor does that. We're chameleons. We change; we grow as an actor. You lose weight, you gain weight, you change your hair or whatever.

Why not simply work better and harder at what you've got?

Rather than setting yourself a New Year's resolution, why not simply pick a reason for hating yourself for the next 365 days? Takes less time, and it's easier to stick to.

I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'

A large amount of work has come to a standstill all around, so I thought why not just go for weight loss?

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Having inched closer and accomplished some of my major goals in the sport of golf, no pun intended, why not work as hard as I can to attain those goals if I'm already feeling like I'm playing well and getting more and more comfortable.

So I want to make money. I think it's an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can't ask for that. But why not?

If you're going to play football, why not be the best at it that you can be and fulfill your potential?

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?