Quotes About Motivation

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.

My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

I dreamed of being like Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing'.

Who I always refer to as my acting mentor when I got into junior college is an acting professor by the name of Tom Blank. He took me under his wing, and he was that strong male figure. He was tough love, but he believed in me, saw everything that I had.

When I was younger, I had two players: Luke Shaw and Gareth Bale. When Shaw was at Southampton, he was a left-back, and I loved watching him bomb up and down the wing, create goals, score goals, so I think I try to emulate that. Gareth Bale - same thing, really.

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.

Paul forced the Beatles to work a lot harder than they would have otherwise, and he did the same thing with Wings.

Abhinav has helped me open my wings. He motivates and inspires me.

Like Koeman, Klopp knows exactly how to get the best out of me - by being critical. When the media are hyping me and being very positive, he will downplay the praise and all that - often with a wink.

Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.

I'm a winner. I love to build. I've got great ideas. I've got the passion. I'm very diligent, and if given a chance I'll work my rear end off to be a success.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

If everybody's a winner, nobody has to try very hard.

Nothing would make me happier than to train the next winner on 'The Biggest Loser' because it means the world to me. Everybody has a fighter inside them, they just don't realize it.