Quotes About Motivation

Any time anybody says something bad about me, that means I've got to work. If they say I'm not living up to what my potential is, I've go to work - and that's every day.

They say that once you get married then you'll be held back, that everything stops. It's been the opposite for me. My husband pushes me.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

It's nice when they say I inspire them, it inspires me.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

They say Chicago is for haters. No one will just sweat each other and say, 'Oh, you're so good,' if you're not. Which is another reason I'm inspired to stay.

When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

Some days I'm up, some days I'm down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.