Quotes About Motivation

The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth

I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.

I just want to live in a way that either wakes people up or shakes people up. Whether I have opened a wound or opened a heart, I have touched a life and helped bring a change.

At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

When you procrastinate you become a slave to yesterday.

It is unwise to assume that any one approach to motivation will appeal to all affected by it. Motivation policies and practices must recognize that people are different.