Quotes About Motivation

Ronaldo is a bon vivant, he is friendly, he always has something to help you progress. He wants to be the best around. It infuriates him when he loses, he cannot stand it. It's true that sometimes, in the dressing room, it's fun to lose just to make him mad!

I have always thought - and a lot of people won't agree with this - that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

I used to be very frightened of failure.

Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.

That's what drives me on, being frightened to fail. The past is in the past. I never think I'm safe.

Lead from the front.

I will give my very best to develop both as a driver, and to be part of the challenge to put the Sauber F1 Team back closer to the front where it belongs.

My brother thundered me in everything most of my life. He was a great carrot out in front of me. All I wanted to do, ever, was beat him at anything.

A lot of fighters get frustrated when they're not active.

You get frustrated because you're so competitive and you want to win every drill.

I think I'm just competitive and I demand a lot from myself. So I get frustrated if something hasn't come off for me or if a game is going against it. I like to think I channel it in the right way and do my best for the team.

I'm the same as anyone else. If you are as good at a job as someone else, but they get three or four times more, you get a bit frustrated.

It frustrated me as a kid. Like, why didn't I just wake up every morning shooting half-court shots from my bedroom?

Sometimes when I get frustrated and ticked off, there's a little more fire there. It can also get you in trouble if you're not careful, but I think within reason it can help you.

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.

I like to be good at what I do. It's frustrating when I'm not. But if I get an idea in my head, you better not try to stop me, because that is just going to push me harder.

There's nothing like adversity to fuel the fire.

I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'

Criticism's healthy. It gives you that extra little bit inside you to prove people wrong, to use it as energy, to use it as fuel.