Quotes About Motivation

I remember meeting my manager Eamonn for the very first time, and one of the first things he said to me was, 'You're fat. The first thing you need to go is get to a gym.' It was quite a wake-up call. I got a bit angry initially, like, 'The cheek of him', but I'm quite a pragmatic and thick-skinned person, so I just went ahead and joined the gym.

Everybody has to work on themselves, no one is perfect. No one wakes up every morning and, you know, you have to love yourself but you also have to drive yourself from within.

Sometimes I'll do five minutes of skipping at the start of the day - one minute on and one minute off, and it's great, it really wakes up the system.

Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.

I'm not someone who wakes up at 6 A.M. to go to the gym.

Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early - get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee... prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.

There's just something inside of me that wakes me up every day and pushes me and wants me to be great.

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

I don't mind getting punched in the face. It kind of wakes me up and gets me excited.

See, for some reason, I feel like it's a victory if I wake up one minute before the alarm. It's like I'm in a contest with myself, with my foot kicking around until it wakes up the rest of my body. It's the stupidest thing. But it makes me feel like I've already won something.

A dream can be what wakes you up in the morning and keeps you going every day, whether things are going great or not. You have that dream; you have that passion inside you that you keep pushing forward.

I love to start the day with a stretch and a few miles of running. It wakes me up and clears my head.

I don't think anyone wakes up and says, 'I want my life to suck today.'

I get work done in half the time if the family is still asleep. When my family wakes up, I've already had a productive morning and am ready to enjoy breakfast with them before I start conquering the rest of my day.

I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.

The thing that wakes me up in the morning is tryna maximize my day, every single day.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one's waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.

I love my job. I love waking up in the morning and doing this, and I want to continue making a living doing it.

I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.

All you truly need to worry about is waking up each day and to try to be the best version of yourself.

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.