Quotes about Motivation

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.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.