Motivation Quotes - Page 11

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.
If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while.

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?

Using love as a bait and replacing respect with ego-pampering makes you a skillful social animal; unfortunately, all kinds of animals are less evolved than human beings. Would you like to evolve?

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

Go On. Write. I dare you.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness.

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions

Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence - a surprise.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.