Motivation Quotes - Page 2

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

I don't speak very well, I work very well.

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics can help you get where you want to be!

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.