Quotes About Motivation

There are varying motivations for becoming a professional athlete, from the money to the fame to the women to the drive to the competition. But on this night at this singular moment the Mets remembered what it was like to do something for pure love. They had accomplished the baseball impossible, and the result was euphoria.

I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.

inspiration is rarely the first step. When it does come out of the blue, it's glorious. But it's much more in your own hands than the divine-intervention-type beliefs we all tend to have about inspiration. Most of the time, inspiration has to be invited.

It can be very daunting and upsetting when people realize that others are more talented than they are. But you have to work through that. You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world.

People with packs are people with purpose.

I never much understood the point of the world of men. How they fed off each other. How they motivated themselves. I mean, I got the purpose, but I navigated that world the way an astronaut would an alien landscape. Trying not to breathe the same air. Which was impossible, of course.

Never do something for just one reason.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!...

Quanto mais difícil, mais divertido é encontrar um motivo pra ficar contente.

A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Al águila le entusiasma sobrevolar el mundo desde las alturas, no a fin de contemplar con desprecio a la gente, sino para animarla a que mire hacia lo alto.

Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I will behave.

Have you located your passion as if this was your last night on earth?

Light tomorrow with today.

Mason's Make-It-Happen Realtor!")

progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.

whatever she was up to, the whole thing made him

God's word is exciting, so electric, so energizing-

But to yell at your creativity, saying, "You must earn money for me!" is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you're talking about, and all you're doing is scaring it away, because you're making really loud noises and your face looks weird when you do that.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something