Motivation triggers luck.

Anger is a good motivator.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”

“It's not very confidence inspiring to pull your guidance, and because of that we're looking hard at our 2006 estimates.”

“We decided to make this a huge splash. Geri is just so inspiring. She has so many memories.”

“If we are not honored with the games, that might be for the best. We don't want to mix motives here, and our motives are to be helpful.”

“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”

“Music has always been an inspiring factor in my work, and this piece portrays a DJ performing his craft.”