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Quotes about Motivation

They even create crises. They don't look for ways to be more efficient because they actually like working overtime. They enjoy feeling like heroes.
— Jason Fried
The number one counter to distractions is interesting, fulfilling work.
— Jason Fried
Most people suffering from a lack of motivation will blame themselves first. "Ah, it's because I'm such a procrastinator!" "Why can't I just get myself together?" The truth, more often than not, is that you are not the problem; it's the world you're working in.
— Jason Fried
If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I don't need time, I need a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
— Duke Ellington
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
— Albert Einstein
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
— Samuel Johnson
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
— William James
Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.
— James Faust
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
— Calvin Coolidge