Quotes About Motivation

I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

What he knows now is that guilt isn't the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.

Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains—because they're there.

Don't wait for the muse.

It always comes down to two choices; Get busy living, or get busy dying.

He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched.

There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He's a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you.

but shame is like laughter. And inspiration. It doesn't knock.

Tell you what, why don't you think of whoever wrote your first good book? I'm talking about the one that got under you like a magic carpet and lifted you right off the ground. Do you know what I'm talking about?" They know. It's on every face that faces his.

All the same, you don't do it for money, or you're a monkey. You don't think of the bottom line, or you're a monkey. You don't think of it in terms of hourly wage, yearly wage, even lifetime wage, or you're a monkey. In the end you don't even do it for love, although it would be nice to think so. You do it because to not do it is suicide.

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

I am a firm believer in the 'Power of Persuasion.'Insomuch as, whatever you believe are your limitations, will become your limitation.

Everyone finds the time to do the things the want to do.

Never let the joy of a single victory engulf your desire for more.

i'm not able to concentrate like others doing i'm lagging day by day ! when you got this in your mind this represents you are leading not lagging.

To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.

If you train a dog it will follow you but if you train yourself you will be Great.

Things don't happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen.

Your information should be always inspiration

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

In life you dream, you step out and you make it happen.