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Goals keep you motivated and they give you a direction. That way you're not just aimlessly training and doing too much of one thing and not enough of another.
Oct 1, 2025
There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.
No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).
If you want to be in this business [acting], do it for the right reasons. Don't be in it because you want to be a celebrity. Be in it because you really love the work, and the work keeps you up at night, and it keeps you motivated, and it wakes you up early in the morning because you have ideas.
If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Place a picture of someone that looks like what you want to look like when you reach your weight loss and fitness goal somewhere nearby. However, be sure to keep it realistic to your own body type. This is a visual reminder of what the end result of your fitness and weight loss program will be, helping to keep you motivated.
My best advice is to work out with a buddy. They keep you motivated and get you out of bed.
Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Action will delineate and define you.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.