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Quotes About Motivation

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.
~ Frederick Lenz
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.
~ Grete Waitz
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
~ Harry Callahan
If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.
~ Holly Lisle
I was motivating him every time. When it was break point I was telling him 'hit a good return because you know you are gonna get many more kisses' [on Jamie Murray
~ Jelena Jankovic
Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.
~ Jennifer Garner
I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.
~ Jhene Aiko
It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.
~ Arianna Huffington
If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.
~ Barbara Boxer
You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
~ Bruno Heller
For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.
~ Dick Pound
You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all
~ Dan Quayle
I don't waste time being depressed.
~ Marc Andreessen
I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.
~ Stan Lee
It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.
~ Ethan Hawke
Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.
~ Frederick Lenz
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
~ Harper Lee
I am always playing hard trying to win. Just knowing that at one time I was once that kid that looked up to NBA players and NFL players. Today these kids look up me.
~ Jason Terry
Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!
~ Jennifer Lacy