Quotes About Motivation

I am Walt Disney. I know that the person who makes dreams come true is YOU.

your intentions.

They had one mantra, and it came straight from the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan. If you fall, fall forward

The only easy day was yesterday

Nothing, I believe, inspires a man with such eagerness to begin his day's work as the sight of his instruments neatly laid out

Just to get through life was no ambition. It was the opposite of ambition.

Your life is an occasion - rise to it.

A thought is like an unripened fruit that is not yet eaten by anyone. Ripening the fruit means bringing a positive thought into action. Many good thoughts die because they are not brought into action, so your good thoughts should definitely be brought into action.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write.

Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!

You've got five minutes to get your ass up and in the shower, or the shower's coming to you.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself.

And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true, I did everything well enough and got all A's, and by the time I made it to college nobody could stop me.

It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.

Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come.

The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt

Hasta insanlar? ??martmamak laz?m, ??mart?lmak onlara kötü gelir, kendilerine gelmeleri için biraz tokatlamak gerekir.

Each of these magic seven weeks: writing: not the novel yet, until I'm warmed up.

I love my rejections. They prove that I'm trying'. I'm convinced this quote from Sylvia Plath is one of the best incentives to keep a struggling writer from giving up.

Pray to yourself for the guts to make the summer work. One sale: that would help. Work for that.