Quotes About Motivation

A motto of mine had long been, "When the heart isn't in it, all zest in the job is destroyed

Para alcanzar el éxito se requieren dos cualidades: el compromiso y la autodisciplina».

The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.

Action creates/a taste/for itself.

I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions.

in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

Sometimes, wanting to impress is what keeps us moving when all we really want to do is curl up in a fetal position and whimper.

There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.

The muse is a fickle bitch. Woke me at five. You're

Our pictures might not be recognizable, but come on. Why would we lie about it?" "Same reason my own kids lie," the server said. "To get attention." "Seriously?" Sam said. "We're going to hatch this elaborate scheme, and launch it in your crappy little--?" I stepped on Sam's foot.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

If you look closely enough, every decision has its roots in what a person wants. Scratch the surface, and you'll find a reason behind every action.

The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

He forced himself to take a single step forward; and once he had done that the second was a little less difficult, and the third was almost easy.

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten

to him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game

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I don't believe that. You're intelligent, but lazy.

think he could take

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

One of you guys, for cryin' out loud! This is where you get the edge, don't you see that? We have to do this—or we're whipped! Don't a one of you clucks know what I'm talking about enough to give us a hand? You, Gabriel? George? No? You, Chief, what about you?

This is a crucial point, because it alerts us to the fact that, no matter how high-minded, idealistic, or altruistic a cause might appear—from ecology to cultural diversity to spirituality to world peace—the simple mouthing of intense support for that cause is not enough to determine why, in fact, that cause is being embraced.