Pep Talk Quotes

• Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Real, Emotional, Giving

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby. "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.

  James Dashner

  Giving, Attention, Crowds

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.302, Delacorte Press

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• The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Giving, Bullshit, Trouble

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• My thing is "You don't need anyone else to empower you; you can empower yourself." Whether it's a pep talk or putting on a good shade of lipstick, whatever you need to do, do it, but be yourself. You absolutely don't need someone else to tell you that you're good enough.

  Ayesha Curry

  Being Yourself, Empowering, Good Enough

  Source: www.glamour.com

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I certainly don't mean to leave the impression that anxiety can be waved away with a simple pep talk. In fact, for some, God's healing will include the help of therapy and/or medication. If that's the case, do not for a moment think that you're a second-class citizen of heaven. Ask God to lead you to a qualified counselor or physician who'll provide the treatment you need. This much is sure: It's not God's will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It's not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.

  Max Lucado

  Healing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us
  up out of the half sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercises every morning to stir us into action. Give yourself a pep talk every day.

  Dale Carnegie

  Spiritual, Morning, Sleep

  Dale Carnegie (2004). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.

  Conan O'Brien

  Hard Work, Order, Yesterday

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• As a father, you find yourself telling this to your kids a lot. My son, when he didn't want to play baseball, I was like, "Buddy, try it. Try playing baseball and if you don't like it, that's fine. But I want you to try it. I want you to try as hard as you can at it. And then we'll talk about it." You kind of have to give yourself the same pep talk. As a 43-year-old, you're like, "You know what? Just, try it. Try as hard as you can, give it everything you got and then accept the results."

  Nick Lachey

  Baseball, Father, Kids

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I give myself a pep talk and visualize the routine. I tell myself: "I can do this, let's go!"

  Gabby Douglas

  Giving, Routine, Pep

  "Gabby Douglas and Leslie Jones Are Texting Now, Thanks to #Love4GabbyUSA". Interview with Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. August 22, 2016.

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• I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Trying, Answers, Skirts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Squares, Cake

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• Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Giving, Alcohol

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.113, Criss Jami

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• I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

  Tom McVie

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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• Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

  Aldous Huxley

  Perfectly Good, Bird, Mouths

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Any tips for winning?” she’d asked. “Yeah. Do what you gotta do to survive.” “That’s it? Wow. You suck at pep talks.

  Gena Showalter

  Winning, Wow, Yeah

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction”, p.959, Harlequin

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• Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk--or why. It sounds like a twelve-step mantra and I'm not in Anything Anonymous, though to read some of the crap they write about me, you'd think I should be. I have the kind of life a lot of people would probably sell a kidney to just experience a bit of. But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

  Gayle Forman

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.8, Penguin

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• no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Believe, Kissing, Different

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.111, Macmillan

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• The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving Up, Battle, Liberty

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• Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cocky, Autumn, People

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