Quotes About Motivation

One good thing about aspiration is that it's quite easy to tell whether or not you have it. If you're not actually taking steps to do something, then you don't really want to do it, no matter what you're telling yourself. Your aspiration is insufficient. Period.

Loneliness can be the spark that pushes us to nurture our existing relationships and to make an effort toward new ones. It can also motivate us to reach out to our Maker with renewed passion and energy.

Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.

Dreams? What's the point of that?

Come on, you lazy lump," Berrynose urged him. "You'll never get to be a warrior sitting on your tail all day." No? Lionpaw gritted his teeth. If I looked at you, I'd think that's all warriors do!

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Your body doesn't carry you up there. Your mind does. Your body is exhausted hours before you reach the top; it is only through will and focus and drive that you continue to move. If you lose that focus, your body is a dead, worthless thing beneath you.

If you cannot get your act together then at least try to make it entertaining." Becky Johnson

With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm--it can creep, but it cannot fly.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

Move toward your dreams, not away from your problems.

The moment any man aims to live to his Maker's glory, to live like a man, and not like a servant of the world or the Devil, to live for God's eye and service, to live from the divine motive--the only saving on, love--which is alike love for excellence, truth, goodness, and love for God, and love for God's children--that moment the world with its false standards and prices recedes and falls into its place. Then the humble, the pure and good, become our true nobility.

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

I know that a man who tries to convert me to any cause is actually at work on his own conversion, unless he is looking for funds under the mask of some fancied nobility.

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

I emailed, thanking her for the prompt response. "Amazing what a little credit crisis can do to motivate,