Motivation Quotes

"When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing."

- George Orwell

"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it."

- Roald Dahl

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."

- William Faulkner

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."

- Terry Pratchett

"You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it."

- Octavia E. Butler

"Start before you’re ready."

- Steven Pressfield

"You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page"

- Jodi Picoult

"I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles."

- Shannon Hale

"I get a lot of letters from people. They say, 'I want to be a writer. What should I do?' I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it."

- Ruth Rendell

"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!"

- Ray Bradbury

"The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."

- Samuel Johnson

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."

- Virginia Woolf

"To survive, you must tell stories."

- Umberto Eco

"When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live."

- Stuart Scott

"Don’t wait until February to start living in January."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

- Lou Holtz

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;"

- William Shakespeare

"End practice on a Happy Note."

- John Wooden

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

- Muhammad Ali

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

- Mark Twain

"New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."

- James Agate

"No, Thursday’s out. How about never — is never good for you?"

- Bob Mankoff

"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!"

- Aleister Crowley

""Super jealous you are retiring. Now you are definitely going to beat me at golf.""

""Fore-get about work, it's time for a work on your golf game. Happy retirement!""

"Yes You Can."

"Don't Forget to be Awesome"

"Do Something Today That Your Future Self will Thank You for."