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Quotes About Motivation

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.
~ Richard Widmark
The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.
~ Robert Crumb
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
~ Robert Grudin
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
~ Roger Ailes
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
~ Steve Lacy
That's why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.
~ Steven Kotler
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.
~ Swami Vivekananda
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.
~ Sylvia Plath
I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, its something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.
~ Trevor Donovan
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
~ Warren Cuccurullo
A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
~ William Frederick Book
Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.
~ Yoko Ono
The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.
~ Zig Ziglar
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
~ Bill Sienkiewicz
Laziness means more work in the long run.
~ C. S. Lewis
I love going to work.
~ Craig T. Nelson
Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.
~ Dan Miller
You want it? Work for it.
~ Unknown
What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.
~ Dave Barry
The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.
~ David Allen
On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
~ David Kim
How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.
~ Deacon Jones
A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.
~ Doreen Virtue