Quotes About Motivation

Each time you set and reach a goal, you'll discover a sense of contentment that breeds a stronger sense of direction and joy.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

My dream is not to just be a supermodel but to be a role model as well...

I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.

To exert itself, the will, like the arm, requires to have an obvious and a definite resistance, to know where it is, why it is, whence it comes, and whither it goes.

Some inquire from genuine love of knowledge, or from a real wish to improve what they ask about; others to see their name in the papers.

When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.

Sometimes inspiration hits in the middle of the night and I want to get up and work on it. It's that spark of immediacy. For me, it's a tap which is on all the time.

It's a crazy kind of schedule but five or six years ago, I had an idea for a book and wrote it rather quickly. All of a sudden I found that two books a year, spring and fall, was something I could reasonably do. I'm always chasing the next story.

Philanthropic zeal supplies admirable motive power, but makes a very indifferent compass; and of two evils it is better, perhaps, that our ship shall go nowhere than that it shall go wrong, that it should stand still than that it should run upon the rocks.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.

In retrospect I realize that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one scene would have meant never making it to the top, although it would have been by far the easier choice. What motivated me was probably that little light still left in my half-dead heart, glittering in the darkness. Yet without it, perhaps, I might have slept better.

But even in that very brief period of time I was made abundantly aware of the extent to which various things inside me had degenerated without my even knowing it. I'd always hated working, and I'd never cared much about the kinds of jobs I took or whether I had one or not or anything like that, and none of that had changed at all, it wasn't that...it was something like guts, the ability to move on to the next thing when I had to...

That's what it's like when you're creating things. On the one hand, it really seems like you're keeping it all moving on your own, and you can tell yourself that you've got inspiration raining down on you, but ultimately you can't make anything happen on your own. I

I've always been like that—if I'm not pushed to the brink, I won't move.

As soon as she gets an idea in her head she does it, you know? I just stand back in amazement at her way of making things happen.

In retrospect, I realise that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one scene would have meant never making it to the top, although it would have been by far the easier choice. What motivated me was probably that little light still left in my half-dead heart, glittering in the darkness. Yet without it, perhaps, I might have slept better.

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes ' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.