Quotes About Motivation

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.

Others will absolutely be able to break 2:00, too, as long as they believe in themselves.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want breathe, then you will be successful.

If you have that belief - pure belief in your heart - that you want to be successful then you can talk to your mind and your mind will control you to be successful.

Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.

There's some discographies out there that are therapeutic to listen to before you write.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

If I'm feeling down or depressed, working up a sweat will make me feel like I can really do this - that, in fact, I can do anything. It's like a therapy for me.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

I have all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I'm absolutely not in therapy is because then I wouldn't have anything to write.

I have given motivational speeches at IIT and other well-known establishments. I want to appeal to the people, and therefore, I talk from the heart.

Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.

Scholars are deeply gratified when their ideas catch on. And they are even more gratified when their ideas make a difference - improving motivation, innovation, or productivity, for example. But popularity has a price: people sometimes distort ideas and, therefore, fail to reap their benefits.

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her life. And I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet her and talk to her a lot about what motivates her and what drives her. And that, to me, is a person that really is an extraordinary role model.

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'