Motivational Support Quotes

If we surround ourselves with people who are successful, who are forward-moving, who are positive, who are focused on producing results, who support us, it will challenge us to be more and do more and share more. If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the greatest gift that anyone can hope for.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

The Gunnar Challenge offers new workouts every day, a meal plan and daily 'verbal vitamins,' which are a motivational video or workout tip. The thing that really makes the program work is the forum, where Challengers can communicate with each other and with me.

Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

Are the people in your life inspiring you or tiring you?

My family, my family, my family... That's always been the No. 1 thing for me. They were always at every game, every event supporting me, even if my sister had to work an extra night to take a day off to be at my game... They were just always there 100 percent, motivating me, picking me up from practice, taking me to practice.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."

Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.

If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Associate with people of vision. Be around those who inspire you and motivate you to reach your dreams.

Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.

Being able to motivate girls to reach for their dreams, and giving them someone positive to look up to.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.