Quotes About Motivation

When I got traded to the Raptors Kyle Lowry told me, 'We expect you to average 15 points a game off the bench.' And I said, 'Perfect, so you need me here.' And that made me feel wanted. So once he put that expectation on me, it just made everything fall into place.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

Just a huge credit goes to the GM Goodwrench team and all my teammates that went before me. It's been a good weekend for us so far and hopefully we can put it all together tomorrow night.

Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether as an athlete, a conservative, a sexual being, a together person, whatever.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You'll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.