Quotes About Motivation

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing.

We all do what we do.

Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.

Because the Muse persists.

You only fail if you stop writing.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.

You fail, only if you stop writing.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it — and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything — so they never get anything.

The more I did, the more I wanted to do.

It has nothing to do with pay. Either you love what you are doing or... Look, I wrote for years, and I wasn't paid. My love carried me through all those years.

They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims. There was a reason for each man.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

I don't like work-no man does-but I like what is in the work-the chance to find yourself.

He was too lazy even for a mere demagogue, for a workman orator, for a leader of labour. It was too much trouble. He required a more perfect form of ease; or it might have been that he was the victim of a philosophical unbelief in the effectivness of every human effort.

Envy and Arrogance and Avarice Are the three sparks that have all hearts enkindled.

It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.

Joseph Devlin