Quotes About Motivation

Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Either get busy living or get busy dying

Get busy living or get busy dying.

What did you do with your life, Master Bran?" she demanded accusingly. "More to the point, what will you do with your life now that you have it back?

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

What are you reading, watching, memorizing, and applying that will make you an exceptional man?

Never let what you cannot do, stop you from doing what you can do!

It wasn't Amundsen's job to make his men happy, but to lead them to victory, alive.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.

If you think you can then you can.

Start with big dreams and make life worth living.

Self-confidence is contagious.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.

Failures can be called 'strengtheners' as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.

When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it, then your will is in the right place.