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Quotes About Motivation

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
~ Wayne McGregor
I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
~ William Faulkner
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
~ Brian Tracy
A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
~ Bruno Rossi
I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.
~ Calvin Coolidge
If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.
~ Carolyn Forché
Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.
~ Charles Ghigna
Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it
~ Charles Sheldon
Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up
~ Cyprian Norwid
Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.
~ David Ogilvy
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
~ Don DeLillo
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
~ Edward Weston
It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
~ Emily Dickinson
Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!
~ Eric Thomas
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
~ Gabriel Heatter
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.
~ George Matthew Adams
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
~ George Orwell
When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.
~ Gretchen Rubin
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
~ Helen Keller
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.
~ Henry Ford
I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.
~ Irvine Welsh
I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run.
~ Izabella Scorupco
Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.
~ Jack Canfield