Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.

I had three sessions of chemotherapy so it was really tough, it was hard to go through it. But while I was going through my treatment, I was always motivated that I was going to come back and play for India. I think that’s what kept me going and got me through.

Tactics are important, but motivation and mentality will always make the difference.

A stationary scoreboard is my greatest motivation.

The best way to handle pressure is to embrace it and turn it into motivation.

I find motivation in the challenge of facing great batsmen.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top.

Keep grinding boy, your life can change in one year, and even when it’s dark out, the sun is shining somewhere.

You’re trying to make someone wet their pants and you’re trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That’s the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

I always say that you have to dream big because if you dream small, that’s what you get.

Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That’s what drives me.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I’m a very goal-oriented person.

I got into tennis because of my parents. They would play a little on the weekend and I liked it when I played.

I think music for me, it’s part of my life. I like music. I think I’m very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make – I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there’s always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Histories are to educate, so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

A person isn’t born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don’t have to give up the chance to love.

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.

Watching all the football over the weekend – and having to wait until Monday night to play – gets you ready, gets you firing.

It’s easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

I love teaching the younger skaters.

Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.

We, as sportsmen, we’re not used to just sitting at home and being at home all day. We want to go out. We want to play sport. We want to be in the gym, want to train; we want to hit balls, and when you’re not physically able to do that, it’s really tough. It starts playing on the mind a lot more.

Virat has helped me with my preparation, mindset, and he has given me a lot of confidence.

It is a very happy feeling that a legend like Rahul Dravid talks highly about me. But I can’t just sit back and be happy about it. I have to back it up with my performances.

I spent a lot of time with Rahul Dravid, working on my game and chatting about cricket. He helped me a lot in the games I played for India ‘A.’

Everyone wants to perform.

Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.

The support and love of the fans is what motivates me the most to perform.

It always seems impossible until it is done.’ NELSON MANDELA.

I owe a lot to Darren Perry. I don’t think I’d be this far this early if it wasn’t for him pushing me to run an extra second or showing me a play on film and telling me when I see it, that’s the green light to go do it and don’t be afraid to take that next step and take chances. That’s what the game is about.

I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Go on and finish your studies,” Gore said. “You are poor enough, but there are greater evils than poverty. Live on no man’s favor. What bread you do eat, let it be the bread of independence. Pursue your profession. Make yourself useful to your friends and a little formidable to your enemies, and you have nothing to fear.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

My motivation has always been health – eating healthy and taking care of myself.

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other’s business.

It’s the same thing: I would think, “If I can’t go out and pull some teenager tonight, maybe I’m no good on stage anymore.” And you start to think that you even need it as a motivation. I did, anyway.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is expressed in the choices one makes.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

No one can humiliate you without your consent.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

The most powerful and sustaining motivation for success comes from within, not from anticipating rewards that come from the outside.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

My childhood favourite is mum’s shepherd’s pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It’s because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

You need to know what you’re aiming for in order to reach it.

Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

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.

Because motivation pervades all action, it is important that we have a positive motivation. Whatever we are involved in, whether it’s politics, education, medicine, law, engineering, science, business or industry, the nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Live if you want to live.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched”

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others

Don’t be afraid of making decisions.

DO IT. DO IT NOW!

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile.I’m a husband,a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin’ the movie whenever they see it. That’s what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.

Listen for the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. And then? Well, the sky is the limit!

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

I’ve faced adversity, but it’s only made me stronger.

The pain motivate me, the struggle motivate me.

Before rap I had friends, got a deal, I ain’t got shit Just tryna get rich, cause my people kinda struggled. Couple tenure niggas poor, but the hood still love me Lil Durk.

When you come from the bottom, you appreciate everything.

Stay working. Stay busy. It should be motivation instead of down time because down time is like being depressed. It shouldn’t be like that. It should really be motivation to keep going.

My message is just showing people how I came from nothing.

There are people who are wise enough and motivated enough to change their lives and live their dreams, and then there are those who need a kick in the pants to change their ways.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

You couldn’t do this and you couldn’t do that, but life went on

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

If neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout, sickness nor pain, of body and brain, can keep you away from the thing you want.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society

The only way to deal with racism is to confront it

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‘Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?’ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‘I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?

But sports carried me away from being in a gang or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you, But how strong you stand is what makes you.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I think the reason why I’m the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Work until you don’t have to introduce yourself.

I’m Really moved by all the people on the internet demanding that I should win an Oscar. but to be honest, I only do this job because i love it, not to win prizes.

Cheers to the ones who doubted me.

I don’t watch anything of mine much. I haven’t gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I’d be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I’m alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well

Through every generation of the human race, there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I’ve asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That’s really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud

I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

I’ve always been spontaneous and outgoing… I’ve tried lots of things so I’ve got some good life experiences, which is great ’cause it means I’ve got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Pay close attention to people who don’t clap when you win.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Encourage & support your kids because “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

The kangaroo is down, we repeat, the kangaroo is down

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

You can do it

You ever have a dream, that you, um, you had, uh, you could, you’ll do, you could do so, you, you’ll do, you could, you, you want, you want them to do you so much, you could do anything?

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

the desire for desires—boredom.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The more we can lower the need for defense, the higher the need for growth.”

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.