Quotes About Motivation

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

To compete in the Dakar Rally is a lifetime ambition for me and is something I know I have to do.

You want to play for a guy who's going to be there for you. He's going to lead you. He's going to inspire you. Someone that the guys in the locker room can really rally around.

I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.

What we've done now sits with those films that inspired me as a kid, and I hope there is a kid like myself today who is watching 'Wreck-It Ralph,' and he or she is inspired the way I was inspired when I was 5 years old, and now they'll pursue this crazy dream.

I became an actor only as a result of Madhuri Dixit. I was watching 'Ram Lakhan,' and her song 'Bada dukh dina' started playing. The minute I saw it, I told my mother, 'I wish to accomplish it. I desire to be on TV.'

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

Remember that. I ran from the line of scrimmage.

She told me, 'I didn't raise no quitter.' That coming from your mom, that's powerful words. That's all I needed to hear. That just drove me. I just took it in and ran with it.

Seeing friends become successful, you go, 'I can do that, too.' I ran with it fresh out of college. MMA was the next step.

We had nothing in our times. The athletes and sportsmen in those days didn't earn much money. We worked for the applause, people's appreciation inspired and motivated us, we ran for the country.

I think in 2012, I ran 28 races in June, so I probably ran 12 or 13 in a row, at least.

I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.

Growing up, as a kid, I loved to read. I liked to read books that were above my range. I always tried to aim higher and read difficult books.

Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

I'm JaVale McGee, the basketball player, funny guy, whatever, whatever. But I'm just really passionate about music and I don't want people to look at it like 'Oh he's just doing it to get famous.' I'm already pretty famous as is, so I'm not really trying to do it for the money.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.