Quotes About Motivation

Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.

So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Anyone who puts 110% into their work deserves as much success as they can get.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work.

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.