Quotes About Motivation

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

When you can't create you can work

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserves success. I have the drive to work. Maybe that's why I've stayed on the fringe.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

I'm a doer and I just want to do it. Whatever attitudes, prejudices, stereotypical ideas that are in front of me, I will break them. But the only way I can break them is by getting a job, and if I need to start in the gutter, I will start in the gutter and work my way up. Money isn't an issue.

For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not to be the highest paid dentist in Beverly Hills.

Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

I'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse.

I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor because he's a guy who's had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity - and inspired creativity.

We've seen guys in the sport, like Steve Smith and Virat Kohli, who have actually benefited from the captaincy.