Quotes About Motivation

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

Hard work's a good distraction.

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

Start with why. And work really hard to make sure you're consistent.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

It's definitely hard, it's hard to get into a Monday, it's much easier to work through a weekend and accomplish a lot, but I don't think that's the healthiest way to live.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices