Quotes About Motivation

When you know why you will overcome any how

Character is plot, plot is character.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...

going to work so as to forget that there was nothing worth working for

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

I knew I'd be tongue-tied soon, so I tried to press my worry down by telling myself what Grandpa Leong used to tell me, that the best way to conquer fear is to act. Open the mouth and tell.

Even when I was failing math and everything else and I was feeling so bad about myself, you sat down with me and said, "Honey, there are those who do well at math, and then there are those, like yourself, who have been blessed with a creative mind and a wonderful imagination. I just know you are going on to do great things." You'll never know how you changed my life that day.

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Fern Michaels

To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill those either.

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for. O êxito está em ter êxito, e não em ter condições de êxito. Condições de palácio tem qualquer terra larga, mas onde estará o palácio se o não fizerem ali?

Should we reason our way out of sadness ? But why, when reasoning requires effort ? And the sad man lacks the necessary energy to make any effort at all.

Every man of action is basically cheerful and optimistic, because those who don't feel are happy.

Pues bien, quizá la felicidad tenga que ver también con la habilidad o la sabiduría para retrasar el máximo tiempo posible esta desgana de vivir.

No siempre nos movemos atraídos por la luz, a veces es la sombra la que nos empuja.

I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside you or outside. Some of these suggestions are good and praiseworthy and some of them are undoubtedly delightful. But the majority of them are definitely bad and are pretty considerable sins as sins go.

In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

My family and friends, they know that I'm a really good competitor.