A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
You never know what motivates you.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Never, never, never give up.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Never give in and never give up.
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.
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.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
People say 'dream big,' that's kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.
Who seeks shall find.
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.
