Quotes About Motivation

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Love is the reason for it all.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

It's terribly important for everyone, at any age, to live to his full potential. Otherwise a kind of dry rot sets in, a rust, a disintegration of personality.

Since Wilfrid had introduced her to H.G. Wells, Jane's life had been different. Her horizons had widened and extended incredibly. H.G. Wells was like wind blowing through her mind. She felt strong and exhilarated after reading him. It didn't matter whether she agreed with him or not. She wasn't sure that he ever pointed out any road that she could follow. It didn't matter. He made her want to get up and fight and go on.

To be asked by her to do something filled him with pleasurable strength, as if she called all his powers into play. He felt able to move heaven and earth, he said to himself. She was his enthusiasm.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

When problems arise, a good question to ask yourself is "What am I hoping to get out of this situation?

My mother explained it for him once. "There is nothing there for anyone who has ambition and intelligence," she said.

Fear is one of the biggest things that will stop you from moving forward and doing the things that will get you to your destiny.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Figuring out Lorne consequently became something of an obsession for many on the show. They talked about him for hours, sometimes catching themselves using Lorne's favorite words or phrases, and an acknowledgment from him was enough to keep them motivated for weeks.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

We go from liking something . . . to wanting it . . . to needing it. At the same time our drive to go after it is heightened considerably. "In nature, rewards take time and effort.

Upton Sinclair?" "Yes. The quote is something like, 'It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

We need to be aspirational rather than merely defensive.

not too many people would feel sorry for a man who worked from home, answered only to himself, and earned millions by simply typing words into a computer.

we need accomplishment and achievement to have a strong sense of self-esteem.

My father let me think about this and then asked me what I'd do the next time a test came around. How would I prepare for it? It occurred to me that if I knew I really couldn't earn an A, what was the point of killing myself? I told my father, and he agreed. In fact, he told me that soon the entire class would be getting Cs, and then Ds. And eventually Fs. Socialism at work.

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'" Altschuler

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

self-esteem through effort.