Quotes About Motivation

Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, save to lie down and die!

ambition is a talisman more powerful than witchcraft.

Running had become more of a competition to draw out the best that was in him, as if he were plumbing the depths of his will.

Part of Walt's secret was that in insisting on quality from individuals of whom it had never been required, he inspired commitment.

Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

But there's a road to hell for every good intention.

Keep your eyes on the prize, although I think he should have also said Go after the prize, too; and maybe that's why prizes ever came his way, because all he ever did was look at them.

Have you ever just laid in bed unable to dredge up the will to get out of it?

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator. Citra

We learn because we want to, not because we have to, so we learn faster. We learn deeper.

Was there ever a time when people weren't plagued with boredom? A time when motivation wasn't so hard to come by?

Tyger Salazar was going places! After a life of wasting time and taking up space, he was now professionally paid to waste time and take up space!

Hay gente ordinaria que hace cosas extraordinarias

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

Never get out of bed before noon.

Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.