Quotes About Motivation

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams," he said. "Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.

Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to Brisbane.

Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.

Some people worked well with daily discipline, but she'd always been more of a need-a-deadline or consumed-by-vision artist.

It wasn't always imperative to get 'Excellent'. Sometimes it was healthy to have something to work towards.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.

A meme a day keeps the planes away.

My best time as a writer is any day, or any moment, when the work's going well and I'm completely absorbed in the task at hand. The hardest time is when it's not, and I'm not. The latter tend to outnumber the former. But I'm a persistent little cuss. And I soldier on.

I wrote it for insomniacs at three in the morning who were wondering how they'd get through the next day. And I wrote it for my past self, that girl who promised herself she'd write a book someday.

Who ask don't get who don't ask don't want who don't want don't get who don't get don't care

the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage.

Um homem salva-se se é vontade da sua vida. Os outros são só o alimento dessa vontade.

Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.

Todas as manhãs a gazela acorda sabendo que tem que correr mais veloz que o leão ou será morta. Todas as manhãs o leão acorda sabendo que deve correr mais rápido que a gazela ou morrerá de fome. Não importa se és um leão ou uma gazela: quando o Sol desponta o melhor é começares a correr.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Celebrate what you have accomplished but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.