Quotes About Motivation

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

Don't agonize. Organize.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

You have to set new goals every day.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

A homer a day will boost my pay.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.