Quotes about Motivation

I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.

I've had signs I can play at the highest level.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.

The drawing is also a reminder that there's an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. That's a pro.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.