Quotes About Motivation

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

I think to give everything I have on court is the best thing to do to win tournaments.

If I'm going to play, I'm going to have to give it 100%, which means I'm going to have to play in all of the tournaments that I don't like.

When your friends win tournaments it is good for you in a way because it does fire you up. You see what it means to them and know you would like to enjoy the same thing.

You build yourself up for the big series, the big tournaments.

It's really great, winning some tournaments and leading the American group. It gives me a boost and a ton of confidence.

I wasnt bothered about winning tournaments at the beginning. I just wanted to win enough money so I could stay on the tour, earn a living for my family. But then when you start to win, you just want more and more.

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.

You learn from the bad games and the bad tours. And, when things are going well, you think about that and you make the most of it. You don't get lazy; you don't rest on your laurels.

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

That's what's cool - you don't know what your kids are gonna be drawn to or what's gonna excite them and what's gonna motivate them. So it's cool to see their personalities develop and see the things that they lean toward.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

Passion keeps me going. I love my work. The need to come back, no matter what, and my passion towards my work keeps me going.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.

We need to put goals in front of us and move towards them.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

You have to define growth to yourself. If you ask yourself what you want, and if the answers are big, then you have to work towards it.