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Quotes About Motivation

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!
~ Brigham Young
I love going to the gym and taking aerobics classes and kickboxing. Doing a variety of activities keeps it fresh and helps work other muscles that could potentially help you with your game.
~ Swin Cash
Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.
~ Richard Schmid
Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.
~ Ruth Simmons
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
~ Jonny Greenwood
In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
~ Caroline Kennedy
Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.
~ Henry Ford
If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.
~ Noel Carroll
The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.
~ Brian Tracy
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
~ Candace Bushnell
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
~ Steve Pavlina
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
~ Annie Dillard
Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.
~ Simon Baker
Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
~ David Ogilvy
I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.
~ Percy Cerutty
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
~ Daniel Craig
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
~ Carl David Anderson
Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do.
~ Barack Obama
I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.
~ Lauren Bacall
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
~ Ricardo Semler
I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
~ Beatrice Wood