Quotes About Motivation

But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.

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.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't to it.

once again I hear of somebody who is going to settle down and do their work, painting or writing or whatever, as soon as they get a better light installed, orassoonastheymovetoanew city, or as soon as they come back from the trip they have been planning, or as soon as . . . it's simple: they just don't want to do it, or they can't do it, otherwise they'd feel a burning itch from hell they could not ignore and "soon" would turn quickly into "now.

it's the dream that keeps you going then and now.

All right, one of the women said, we know you think you're too good for this job. Too good? Yes, your attitude. You think we didn't notice it? That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Get a man who works for nothing and you get a man who just likes to hang around. I

I was laying in bed one night and I thought, 'I'll just quit. To hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit. Save that tiny little ember of spark. And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

No estoy metido en ninguna competición con nadie, ni pienso en la inmortalidad; me importa un carajo todo eso. Es la ACCIÓN mientras estás vivo.

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

You know, sometimes if a man doesn't believe in what he is doing he can do a much more interesting job because he isn't emotionally caught up in his Cause.

Hijo, aire y luz y tiempo y espacio no tienen nada que ver con la creación y no crean nada más que, quizá, una vida más larga para encontrar nuevas excusas para no hacerlo

still, one needs the exercise— this writing game: only the brain and soul get worked-out. quit your bitching and do it. while other people are sleeping you're lifting a mountain with rivers of poems running off.

Some authors say they write to keep from going insane. I say,why limit yourself?

When you are coaching you must understand that success is the result of behavior, which is determined by attitudes, which are formed by conditioning, which takes place through repetition.

Father of Personal Development.

The mission statement provides the WHY that inspires the HOW.

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!

Cuando la gracia de Cristo ilumine su vida, descubrirá que no hace las cosas por temor, por vergüenza o por culpa, sino que las hace por amor.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.