Quotes About Motivation

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

When I work I always find something.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

All of us are extremely competitive. We're kind of competitive with how we work on Radiohead stuff. Having said that, there's also a lot of support.