Quotes About Motivation

What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.

In my time in F1, I never doubted I could be successful. I sadly never made it on to the starting grid of an F1 race, but during testing I completed a race distance.

Two different styles of leadership. LeBron, very encouraging, bringing everybody along, and Kobe, he's testing you, seeing what you gonna give him. If he gonna get at you, he gonna scream at you, he gonna cuss, he gonna do whatever it is. He had his own way of leading guys as well. It's two different sides. I'm just blessed to see both of them.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

I have a little bit of extra testosterone, and it's good to put it to work when I can.

Obviously, in the buildup to some fights, there's animosity and testosterone and banter. But at the end of the day, we all understand that this is a business, just two men who are trying to further their careers and provide for their families.

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

Think about being a teenager and feeling like school is just about taking tests you may or may not be interested in, after which someone will judge whether or not you're smart. No one's going to be inspired by that.

Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

Tomorrow - your reward for working safely today.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

He was explaining the six universal human needs: certainty, variety, love, significance, growth, and contribution.

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

There are three groups of people with respect to empowerment: Those who get it. Those who really want to get it. Those who probably will never get it.

Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued.