Quotes About Motivation

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

I've never really gone out and told people, 'I'm a Christian. I believe in God, and that is the reason why I'm successful. That is the reason why I'm still here doing what I'm doing.'

I've never believed in competition. Everyone's here to do their own thing and become successful in that respect.

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with?

Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

I've found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do.

Successful people often enjoy telling their story.

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it - and I planned on being successful.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I don't succumb to the pressure of expectations. I try to convert it into excitement.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

My record company certainly wants me to play live, badly, but I have no such plans. My only motivation to do such a thing would be money, and I don't think that's a good reason to play live.

I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

I love when people tell me that I was gonna be a bust. I enjoy when people tell me, 'You suck. You can't dribble. You can't shoot,' because it's like, gotta go to the gym.

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

The people around me don't let my head get too big, especially my mom. She tells me I suck every day.

Your motivation gets sucked away when you know that whatever you do your name won't be on the team sheet.

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'