Lata Mangeshkar Quotes

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.

There wasn't one defining moment that I said, 'I wanna be a wrestler.' It was just something that was always inside me.

Me making music happened not even from a desire to make records.

Even if you have so many people saying, 'Yes, this is for you! This is your path!' unless you feel it... It needs to be your own passion, it needs to be your own will.

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

I was born to be actress. If you're supposed to be doing this, you come in knowing it. I truly believe that. And then, of course, you have to let yourself walk the path of it. But I was just always drawn to it.

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.

No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like "Oh I want to be a singer", it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.