Quotes About Motivation

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Inertia is the death of creativity

This is what happens when you write books. There's not just something that drives you to find out everything—something begins putting everything in your path.

Some things you don't know why you do them.

The motive for writing serious literature is to write serious literature. You want to rebel against society? I'll tell you how to do it - write well .

Tolkien regretted the degeneration of real curiosity and enthusiasm, and called for research motivated by love of knowledge rather than hunger for a job.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. —Maya Angelou

Isn't it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you "deserve" the wrong ones? It's highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

Now ask yourself if you're really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won't. So, that means you might lose weight while you're on it, but you'll probably gain it back when you're off it because you haven't made any real lifestyle changes.

Inspiration exists but it must find you working.

To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best. (tr Jowett)

you don't seem to love money too much. And those who haven't made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who [c] haven't.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

no one is willing to govern; because no one likes to take in hand the reformation of evils which are not his concern without renumeration.

People's souls give up much more easily in hard study than in physical training, since the pain—being peculiar to them and not shared with their body—is more their own.

Researchers have found that the more people focus on their odds of winning, the less likely they'll go for it. But the more they focus on what they'll win if they succeed, the more likely they'll go for it.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

You must let your desires guide you, instead of allowing yourself to be boxed in by perceived constraints.

It's just that sometimes, he said, even when the right answer is smack in front of you, you got to reach deep inside yourself to act on it. You know what I'm sayin'?

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

The difference is one of motivation: legalism is self-centered; discipline is God-centered. The legalistic heart says, "I will do this thing to gain merit with God." The disciplined heart says, "I will do this thing because I love God and want to please Him.