Quotes About Motivation

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

It's not about the goal, it's about how you want to feel when you get there.

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?

Believe in yourself, Anything is possible no matter who you are, or where you come from. Find your path and stay on it, if you want something bad enough, nothing can stop you.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

A great song is the reason you want to jump out of your bed in the morning.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.

To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve.

It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

What inspires me is my daughter because I want to set a good example for her, as does my wife.