Quotes About Motivation

Desire is the essence of a man.

Reason is no match for passion.

Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification of itself.

Any exciting goal will arrange exciting ways to achieve it.

Assign positive meaning.

If you have writer's block, write about having writer's block, and you will no longer have it.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

The way I write isn't visually or stylistically dependent. It's usually one character that starts talking, and that points me where the story's going.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game It's easy

My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

I've been approached to do reality shows, but even though the fees are very, very attractive, I always say no because money should never be your motivation.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

I always remember my mum and dad arguing a lot and one main reason was lack of money. I realized very young that I always wanted to make money so I'd never have the same arguments like my mum and dad.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.