Quotes About Motivation

I must—I must—I must increase my bust.

She said, "I must—I must—I must increase my bust." She said it over and over. We copied her movements and chanted with her. "We must—we must—we must increase our bust!

A life without goals isn't worth living.

Boredom is just "What's the use?" in disguise. And "What's the use?" is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

the competitive mind is not the creative one.

Tan cierto es que la duda o la incredibilidad inician un movimiento que aleja todo de usted, como que la fe y el propósito inician un movimiento que le acerca todo. Es al no entender esto, que la mayoría de la gente fracasa.

On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

If you wanted something, you planned for it, worked for it, and made it happen.

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest plesure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. (Quoting Adam Smith)

Do-gooders fail to realize that most good is not done in the name of good but done in the name of self-interest.

On his office wall he had a note to himself: 'Money is necessary--but it isn't too important.' Money meant for him to keep on writing and to go his own way.

The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.