Motivation Quotes

"Do more than just exist."

- Steve Maraboli

"Dear Young Black Males… Juvenile Hall, Jail, and Prison are overflowing with young Black youth that look just like you. You’ve got to be willing to change the narrative of your life! Respect yourself by NOT going down that dead-end road. Enough of the countless excuses! Your life matters, right? So, dare to go against the norm, and do the RIGHT things. If not, you’ll find your life disrupted, destroyed, or ended. Is incarceration or death really worth it? Think it through… THINK IT THOUGH. The choice is yours young Kings, choose wisely! Consequences are VERY real."

- Stephanie LaHart

"Even though you really don’t feel like you’re motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain."

- Bob Harper

"Motivate the mind and set your body free."

- Shaun Thompson

"Don’t say ‘I can’t,’ say ‘I presently struggle with.’"

- Tony Horton

"There is no quick, easy way to the body you want. Commit yourself now to your workout and get started."

- Tracy Anderson

"If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place."

- Esther Earl

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."

- Pearl S. Buck

"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."

- Beatrix Potter

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it"

- Robin Williams

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you"

- Muhammad Ali

"I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it."

- William Carlos Williams

"I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me."

- Ray Bradbury

"Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences."

- Anne McCaffrey

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

- Stephen King

"There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."

- Terry Pratchett

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

- Isaac Asimov

"If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success."

- Malcolm X

"Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it."

- Lady Gaga

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."

- Ray Bradbury

"People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it."

- R.L. Stine

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."

- Martin Luther

"Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. … It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus."

- Enid Bagnold

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."

- Neil Gaiman

"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."

- Joss Whedon

"Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."

- Stephen King

"Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday."

- Unknown

"Make happen what you want to happen. Nothing will happen naturally until you make it happen."

- Unknown

"One way to break negative mind chatter is to replace it with positive affirmations."

- Unknown