Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I told myself that I wanted to be a motivational speaker, I wanted to write a book, graduate college, have my own family, and have my own career.
I’m a motivational speaker.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
When one must, one can.
The more we do, the more we can do.
I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
One finds limits by pushing them.
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that’s always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that’s what you are.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.
I love people who Instagram story themselves running and they’ll tag me or they’ll send me a message and they’ll be like, ‘Wow this is so motivational and so inspirational.’
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Either move or be moved.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Wherever you are – be all there.
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Never complain and never explain.
Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.
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.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it’s time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
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.
The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
As long as I’m not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I’m glad I’m not an MC. I’m a motivational speaker. I’m not that rapper dude.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
My father is my true inspiration. He’s a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.
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.
Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Only the educated are free.
He conquers who endures.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Coy Wire played in the NFL for 9 years and is now a motivational speaker and has a book out called ‘Change Your Mind.’ He is an amazing person with such positive energy! When Kroy and I first met and started dating, there weren’t a whole lot of people that supported us, but Coy always did.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
I’m on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.
Church is definitely still present in my life. Every Sunday I’m tuned in and then throughout the week I read scriptures, I read motivational messages.
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.
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
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.
The Duke family, those are my brothers, and it’s something I’ll always take with me. Coach K, he gives me a lot of motivational things and checks in on me and my family. He knows where my heart is.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
