Quotes About Motivation

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Our visions begin with our desires.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Thy wish was father to that thought.

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by one's fellowmen.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

I think with my right hand.

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Attitude is the "little" thing that makes the big difference.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.

I have reached a conclusion: there is no such thing as inspiration. I thought so once, and made an ass of myself accordingly.

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to.

Want is the mother of industry.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

I think it's good to get knocked around a little bit sometimes. I think it's good to rise from the fire... It's a good opportunity to rejuvenate your motivation, to see that hill and go climb it.

Ja sam vidio u ?emu je takozvana borbenost nekih "borbenih" ljudi. Oni izmisle svoju "borbu", na silu joj na?u razloge, nadjenu ime, i bore se, bez rizika i rezultata, bore se – samo da ne bi morali misliti i raditi.

Mašta po?inje da radi, starnost joj pruža hranu, šapa je raspaljuje, a strah podržava i širi ono što mašta stvara.