Motivation, Motivations Quotes

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Oh true believers! Fight against the infidels who are near, and be hard on them. Allah has reserved for you in your afterlife a happiness which eye has never seen, ear has never heard, heart has never felt. Make yourselves worthy then of such blessings.

Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

It is much easier to start something than to finish it.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

Tell them about the dream, Martin—the dream.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

Action is the antidote to despair.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.