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Quotes About Motivation

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
~ Jeff Raikes
My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.
~ Jennifer Beals
I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.
~ Jenny Lewis
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
~ Jenny Offill
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit's work to discourage us.
~ Jerry Bridges
The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.
~ Jess Walter
I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
~ Jesse Helms
I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.
~ Jewel
You need to WANT to change. You need to be willing to do the work.
~ Jillian Michaels
Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.
~ Jo Brand
The sad heart needs work to do.
~ Joan Bauer
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.
~ Joan Didion
I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.
~ Joan Osborne
I try to use pain as fuel for my work.
~ Joan Osborne
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
~ Joel Osteen
Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't believe in strategies. I love what I am doing; that's the main thing.
~ Aamir Khan
If more students use self-compassion to reframe their failures, they may discover more nourishing sources of motivation and healthier strategies to pursue their goals.
~ Rachel Simmons
I started watching English news channels and would repeat after the anchor. Since coaching classes were expensive, I joined a call centre where, after undergoing training for a month, I quit. I followed this strategy in 15 BPOs. I could earn money and learn English at the same time.
~ Harshvardhan Rane
There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.
~ Mary Steenburgen
When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.
~ Christian Laettner
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.
~ Kirk Hammett
'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
~ Charles Bock