Quotes About Motivation

Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?

the will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.

the concert had energized me in a peculiar and powerful way. It had jimmied the lock on my language box and smashed the last of my literary inhibitions.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

I burn with no causes

You're a writer. You write because you're a writer. Even when you write about something, you have to think up something to write about just so you can keep writing.

If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon.

Literature is not always a voluntary act

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you purse becomes your purpose.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. – Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

Perhaps you've noticed that successful people are not always the best or the brightest, the quickest or strongest. Yet they're always the ones who do whatever it takes to succeed. A goal without commitment results in a nonentity, and usually falls by the wayside from a lack of interest by its beholder.

Je me lèverai demain. extrait de la nouvelle Temps de Blues

Of all of the places on the planet, your marriage should be that one place where you are encouraged, reminded of your strengths, and given the motivation you need to live out those strengths well.

Let your words and actions be seasoned with encouragement so others are stronger after being with you.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One

INTERJECTION: Never give up!

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

the Kingdom, not the menace of hell, as the motive for repentance.