Wherever you are - be all there.
Speeches? I don't ever feel like I'm giving a speech. I don't look at myself as a motivational speaker.
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.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
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.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Leap, and the net will appear.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.
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.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
I find that as an athlete, we don't get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
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 don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Sometimes I'll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he's a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I'm too cynical.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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 taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled 'how to be a motivational speaker.'
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
The more things you do, the more you can do.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Stoking fears of a potential shutdown is a strong motivational tool to get members on board with legislation that they don't want to support. Both parties are guilty of this.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
After a storm comes a calm.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
The people that are feeding you the information on things that I like - love life, believe in yourself, be motivational, give your time to things and meditate - they're all older people who are well into their 50s and have had careers, and for me, at this point, I'm the young ambassador for this whole lifestyle of making your mentality a reality.
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Before I play matches I'm always switching myself on. That's why I have that walk-on music - Two Steps From Hell - they produce really good motivational gladiator-style music. As soon as that music comes on I'm switched on and I'm ready for a brawl!