You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.
— Edwin van der Sar
After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows.
— Eddie the Eagle
You cannot compare Pep to any Brazilian coach. If you put all Brazilian coaches together, you would get Pep. One has motivational skills, another is tactically strong. But Pep has it all.
— Douglas Costa
I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
— Dominique Dawes
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
— Denis Waitley
There is always room at the top.
— Daniel Webster
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
— Confucius
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
— Christopher Reeve
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
— Carl von Clausewitz
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
— Bradley Whitford
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
— Bo Jackson
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
— Benjamin Franklin
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
— Baruch Spinoza
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
— Babe Ruth
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
— Edward Norton
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
— Donna Brazile
We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
You have to make it happen.
— Denis Diderot
Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.
— Daniel H. Pink
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
— Dalai Lama
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
— Christopher Morley
Step by step and the thing is done.
— Charles Atlas
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
— Carl Sandburg
I can't put this down. I'm reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.
— Bojan Krkic
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
— Beverly Sills
Well done is better than well said.
Know or listen to those who know.
— Baltasar Gracian
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
— Ayn Rand
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.
— Anupam Kher
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
— Edgar Cayce
Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.
— Drew Barrymore
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
— Diane Sawyer
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
— Dean Koontz
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
— Dan Millman
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
You never know what motivates you.
— Cicely Tyson
When one must, one can.
— Charlotte Whitton
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
— Carol Burnett
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
— Brian Tracy
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
— Bobby Knight
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
— Benjamin Jowett
Never complain and never explain.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
— Arthur Ashe
