Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.
Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.
If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.
My motivation level here in NXT has always been high. I believe it's one of my stronger attributes.
Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.
Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.
I was always self-motivated.
The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.
I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.
The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.
I'm very food-motivated.
I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.
When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort
If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.
Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.
I've always been a goal-driven person.
You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.