What motivational line do you like to use for your patients? Teddy Roosevelt once said, "believe and your half way there." I use that line a lot to help motivate my patients. Not too long ago I used it on one of my difficult patients. He replied, "Yah well he's dead..." It took a second to come up with a reply to that but I finally did. I told him, "Look what he did while he was alive because he believed in himself."