Quotes About Motivation

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Everybody always resolves to start exercising, but they never do. You know why ? Because it's January. Who wants to go jogging in the freezing cold ?

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.

A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.

Well, the world presented its challenges, and without challenges life was worthless and pointless and, most crucially, devoid of interest.

whoever decided that competition is always and without exception a healthy attribute?

Cutter rubbed at his face. He needed a shave. And a bath. And clean, new clothes. And a purpose in life.

It's a storm,' he said after a moment. 'Storms pass. I need a reason to procrastinate.

Age did such things, feeding the desire then starving the will.

Steven Gerrard with Donald McRae MY STORY

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.

We want to pin a reason to it or else we get terrified anyone else might do the same thing. Including us.

They converted their dreams into goals, their goals into steps, and their steps into tasks.