Pep Talk Quotes

“DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.”
― L.J. Smith, Huntress

“Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.”
― Joss Whedon , Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 #3

“It was time for the mirror pep talk.
“Okay, Maggie,” I said to myself after my shower, wiping the steam off the medicine cabinet.
“You could eat these kids for breakfast. You won’t, though, because that would be cannibalistic and
wrong.”
― Robin Benway, Also Known As

“Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.”
― augusten burroughs

“Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it’s utterly glorious."

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk”
― Ralph Peters

“Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator.”
― Karen Russell

“Good morning.
Your very presence is intoxicating.
Good night.
Your very absence is sobering.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

“Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You’re a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You’re twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you’d have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth”
― Isaac Babel

“I am the captain of my own crunch.”
― Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

“Panic is for the underprepared, the out-of-control, and the fatally inconsistent.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Find your fucking balls, Mitch, and reattach them!”
― Jacquelyn Ayres, Under Contract

“Against all the odds, we built a better navy than theirs—from scratch—in two months! We now rule the waves in the Mediterranean Sea—Our Sea! The day will come—it begins today—when Rome will master the world! Alexander will roll in his grave, Atlantis will decay in her decadence, and these demons of Harappa will entertain Hades with their theatrics this very night. But Rome will live on in fame and glory. It starts with our victory today!”
― Jennifer McKeithen, Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever

“Aspire to do anything, start something and stop at nothing.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don’t take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have to learn through trial and error themselves.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“Nothing is impossible, a zero!
Hence no need for sorrow.
For the dreams of yesterday
are the hopes of today.
They can become reality tomorrow.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, How To Heal A Broken Heart: All You Need Is Love

“I entered the fire and could have quit-
Could have turned and walked away,
Weeping each step for passed pain.
I chose, instead, to stay.
I stayed, and the flames went high,
Far taller than little me.
So high and so bright, all around,
That soon I could not see.”
― Adam Scott Campbell, Embattled We: A Poet's War

“My Pet's MyTherapist When I'm feeling down she says, "Rough, rough!" She's such a good supporter and makes such great critique at the same time!. That's what I call a "pet talk". She's FURbulous and I absolutely love her !!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, 70 Inspirational Quotes in Spiritual Notes: Simple Ideas, Lasting Ideals, Light and Love in Spiritual Languages

“A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot.”
― kayambila Mpulamasaka

“Nobody can do you better than you do you.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“A disappointed is merely an assignment for your next appointment.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“If you've truly tried your best, you've got nothing to regret.”
― Pep Talk Radio

“He brushed a kiss to my brow, 'Ianthe sold out your sisters,' he said, his voice turning sharp and hard. 'It's only fitting that you use her to get Elain back.'

He gripped the sides of my face, bringing us nose to nose.

'Do not get distracted. Do not linger. You are a warrior, and warriors know when to pick their fights.'

I nodded, our breath mingling.

Rhys growled. 'They took what is ours. And we do not allow these crimes to go unpunished.'

His power rippled and swirled around me.

'You do not fear,' Rhys breathed. 'You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again.'

I nodded again, holding his stare.

'Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged.'

He kissed my brow one more time, my blood thrumming and boiling in me, howling to draw blood.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I can't save everyone, especially not someone who isn't willing to save themselves.'

'Damn, Xaden,' Garrick rubs the bridge of his nose. 'Way to give a pep talk.'

'If they need a fucking pep talk, then we both know they're not flying out of the quadrant on graduation day. Let's get real. I can hold their hands and make them a bunch of bullshit empty promises about everyone making it through if that helps them sleep, but in my experience, the truth is far more valuable.' He turns his head, and I can only assume he's looking at the panicked first-year. 'In war, people die. It's not glorious like the bards sing about, either. It's snapped necks and two-hundreds-foot falls. There's nothing romantic about scorched earth or the scent of sulphur. This'- he gestures back toward the citadel- 'isn't some fable where everyone makes it out alive. It's hard, cold, uncaring reality. Not everyone here is going to make it home... to whatever's left of our homes. And make no mistake, we are at war every time we step foot in the quadrant.' He leans forward slightly. 'So if you won't get your shirt together and fight to live, then no. You're not going to make it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing