Quotes About Motivation

I think my goal is to play every day because I believe that I can still play every day.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Abby Lee Miller

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The beauty of having goals in life is that it drives you and when that is lost you lose a lot of meaning in life.

I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

I don't really think in terms of goals.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

Marathon runners set explicit goals.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

I focus very much on the job and my goals and dreams.

I think sometimes you need a run and a bit of confidence with getting the goals.

With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don't do anything different. You just keep working to get better.

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.

I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.

After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.

The Manchester games in 2002 was the breakthrough for me because I won my first individual Gold medal and that gave me the confidence to maybe think I could be a world beater.

Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.