Quotes About Motivation

The lazy will always attribute genius to some 'inspiration' that comes for mere waiting.

The man who does not wish to be merely one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

He gave the human mind a great impetus; he prepared us for freedom.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

we do not desire things because they give us pleasure; but they give us pleasure because we desire them;

and a motto in a frame: sometimes i feel like giving up but then i remember of a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong

You hurt people. Killed people. But the saddest thing is --- you didn't do it because you didn't care. You did it because you cared too much. - Ben Kincaid

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Una verdad que se dice con mala intención. Supera todas las mentiras que puedas inventar (William Blake)

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America.

Some people turn to crime, others to ideology.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.

I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

I write when I am inspired and I make sure I am inspired every day.

Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

La sabiduría suprema es tener sueños lo bastante grandes para no perderlos de vista mientras se persiguen

Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.

You just had to know how to do it, and when to do it, and most important of all, why to do it. Powerful substance like this, Lowell would explain, it wasn't there just for any casual jack-off recreational urge. It was there to allow you to do things. To empower you, he said, so you could do things and, best of all, finish them.