Inner Motivation Quotes

I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been trying to resist them both. But I have learned over the years that when they don't go away and they're still in there, you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that you're going to do something about them.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

My family is my biggest inspiration. My son, my husband, and my family inspire me to be better, do better, and live better.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

At the end of the day, when I step in that cage, I'm there to fight for my name. It's not about money; it's not about who's gonna win or lose. It's about me winning. That's all that matters.

I haven't lost that quest and that thirst to do something great.

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.

How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will accomplish it for you.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

My dreams, my desires, and my goals make me smile.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.