Quotes About Motivation

The power of positive thinking can change your life.

I always use the basic quality of people to achieve what I want to achieve. That's a different way of thinking. I always love that they do things. And when it goes wrong, well, try to correct it in one way or another.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

You don't become great by thinking you're great. Working gives you all the confidence in the world.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It's not that I like to sleep, it's that I don't like to get up! There is a difference.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

When I play a good guy, I try to explore them and figure out what shapes them and makes them interesting. When I'm playing a bad guy, I try to explore everything that makes them good. No one ever really thinks that they're a bad guy.

I am not the guy who will think what others are thinking about you. Instead, I am the one who will always thinks about improving my game.

My mother-in-law thinks I'm more beautiful than all the other faces around. She keeps encouraging me to take up more work.

My mom taught me, 'There are a lot of doubters out there.' It doesn't matter what everybody else thinks.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

I am so thirsty to do my projects whenever I have a spare moment.

Thirty per cent of coaching is tactics, 70% social competence.

I was listed in 'Time Magazine''s 'Thirty under Thirty' and have given three TED Talks, too.

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.