Quotes About Motivation

Take Pride in every little and big task you do throughout the day.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

That something you do, and it makes you admire yourself for doin'it; that's what you really want to become

It's like looking through a time machine at ourselves thirty years ago. While the hair is smaller, the hunger is still outsized. Hunger is what gets anything done. Stay hungry, ladies, we think.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates.

If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us.

Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology. You can assume he meant that now we all expect to understand the motivation behind each character's actions, as if that's possible, as if life works that way. I've read so many recent novels, particularly those published in the Anglo world, that are dull and trite because I'm always supposed to infer causality.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.

political and the commercial man, the man of the limited purpose.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.