Quotes about Motivation

Follow your passion; it will lead to your life purpose.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. And that, I truly believe that the reason I've been able to be so financially successful is because my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing — there's nothing to be done for such people.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

When smart people do dumb things it's usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They want something they're not supposed to have or they've done something they weren't supposed to do. In either case they've usually fasten on to a set of beliefs that are supportive of their state of mind but at odds with reality. It has become more important for them to believe that to know.

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.