Quotes About Motivation

There can be a reason for a reason already supplied and a reason for the reason for the initial reason.

Those who refuse to take a step toward their goal because it does not at once reach the goal are likely to stand still or move backward.

For the very nature of the product designer's role in industry tends to militate against his effectiveness. He is schooled--and presumably motivated--to design things for people; but he is retained to design things for the market.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

Henrik Ibsen hung a picture of August Strindberg over his desk. "He is my mortal enemy and shall hang there and watch while I write!" explained Ibsen.

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, "deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it were, saying, 'All right, you idiot, let me fix this.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives

Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.