pep talk

I expected him to start off with a pep talk.

I don't need you to come in here and give me a pep talk.

He had never heard his wife give herself a pep talk before.

I take her pep talk to heart, perhaps too much so.

I took a moment to look away from her and give myself a pep talk.

At one point, I had to leave the table to give myself a pep talk.

Sometimes, though, I was the one who needed the pep talk.

Most of them had already heard this little pep talk.

It was a pep talk he had used many times before.

At his first news conference today, he gave a pep talk.