Quotes About Motivation

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having. — Deborah Gregory

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen. But a vision that grows inside of you, a vision that wakes with you, sleeps with you, moves with you, a vision that you can tap into on your worst, worst, worst day, the vision will pull you forward.

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it.

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

Leaders must draw the best out of people, and friendship does that far better than prolonged argument or mere logic.

When I sit here and mope and don't do anything and can't do anything, then I actually feel the time slipping away from me. Hours and weeks and months rush past with nothing in them, and I can't nail them to the spot with a piece of work.

She thinks you married me for power," he said as they walked on. "Renee. As that's what she would've done. The power and the money is one in the same to her." "She's wrong. I married you for the sex." He grinned. "So sure of that am I that I work diligently to hold up my end of it.

Why?" Eve leaned forward. "Sincerely, I've always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time." "If I have to explain it, the joy is lost.

I like ass-watching." Peabody settled herself in comfortably."When I see one bigger than mine, it makes me feel good. When I see one smaller, it helps me resist eating a whole bunch of cookies. It's a productive hobby, my ass-watching

It's too easy to become discouraged when no one values your skills and your efforts.

He's enthusiastic," Eve commented. "Yeah, but if you're not excited about your work, life's crap.

The frustration he felt was only with himself, for being so impossibly driven he might, at any moment, beg.

Some people just like to kill. Sometimes it's not any more complicated than that." "It should be," Peabody replied

Yeah, but if you're not excited about your work, life's crap.

Maybe it's all they were after, but gamblers gamble. It worked, as far as they're concerned.

Because you believed in me, you pushed me, and you taught me, I've got it." "That's not entirely untrue." Eve tipped the chair back, put the heel of one boot on the desk. "But if you hadn't believed in yourself, pushed yourself, and learned, I wouldn't have done you a damn bit of

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I remember asking John, after Dusklands, what new project he had on the go. His answer was vague. 'There is always something or the other I am working on', he said. 'If I yield to the seduction of not working, what would I do with myself? What would there be to live for? I would have to shoot myself.

You cannot understand a man's actions unless you understand his beliefs.

Pull up your big girl panties and just do it.

Can you drive any faster? Tohr demanded. I got the pedal to the medal The angel looked back. And I don't care what I have to mow over

The strong do not wallow. They move forward.

Just do it,'' she prompted him. Then she rolled her eyes. ''God, you've turned me intro a Nike commercial." ? J.R. Ward, Prisoner of Night

I think people who survive need to get to an aha moment," she said quietly, "where the fog lifts and you realize there are things worth living for and goals worth pursuing. Even if they're different than what motivated you before.