Quotes About Motivation

Rejections are not obstacles to a career. They're simply things that don't work and can do us no harm. Fearing rejection can do harm. It stops you from continuing.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started." AGATHA CHRISTIE English author and playwright

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Strong-minded women with a cause accepted even fewer excuses than the average gangster, when it came to getting what they wanted, and what they wanted right now was Irene making a speech.

Common sense argued that she shouldn't attribute to malice what could perfectly well be explained by stupidity,

Sometimes it seems easier to be Natalie. People force her to do stuff. I have to force myself.

People are responsible for themselves. All you can do is try to inspire each person to be his best self.

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.

Brian kept forcing them to go back out on tour.

Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman"... the last time you really inspired anyone -- was when you were dead.

Run, Barry... Run.

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For May wol have no slogardie anyght.The sesoun priketh every gentil herte,And maketh hym out of his slep to sterte.

The most important thing about having goals is having one.

The ability to inspire rather than enforce loyalty is a critical quality of leadership.

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you'll ever see, and it will be of no use to them because their goal is not to obey, but to feel less guilty, thus nothing about their souls will be reshaped.

As a motivation —for humans, but Christians especially— guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.