Quotes About Motivation

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

How he led is no mystery. His techniques were time-honored. He knew his men. He saw to it that they had dry socks, enough food, sufficient clothing. He pushed them to but never beyond the breaking point. He got out of them more than they knew they had to give. His concern for them was that of a father for his son. He was the head of a family. He

You lead by fear or you lead by example. We were being led by fear.

instinctively looked for guidance and inspiration. They were

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

I will never be as brave as him—I'm not by nature a particularly courageous person—but he showed me that I could try. And that trying might turn out to be the most important part of courage.

If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher. When each of us thinks about what we can do in life, chances are we can do it because of a teacher.

Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.

It is difficult to demonstrate love when you feel little to no motivation. But love in its truest sense is not based on feelings. Rather, love determines to show thoughtful actions even when there seems to be no reward. You will never learn to love until you learn to demonstrate kindness. First.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

So okay? there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.

Because talent won't be quiet, doesn't know how to be quiet, he said. Whether it's a talent for safe-cracking, thought-reading, or dividing ten-digit numbers in your head, it screams to be used. It never shuts up. It'll wake you in the middle of your tiredest night, screaming, 'Use me, use me, use me! I'm tired of just sitting here! Use me, fuckhead, use me!

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, Write.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.