Quotes About Motivation

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Work for money, design for love.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

Failure makes me work even harder.

I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

Real management is developing people through work.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.