Writing Quotes
“I feel at various times in my life that I’ve been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.”
~ Jodie Foster
"New businesses take A LOT of time and effort to grow, but you still need to find time for your family and to take care of yourself. How do you get it all done? Create a SCHEDULE. Stick to it and remind yourself that you won’t get far if you don’t find a work-life balance!."
~ T Harv Eker
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
~ Leo Burnett
"You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream."
~ C.S. Lewis
“But out of limitations comes creativity.”
~ Debbie Allen
"The start is what stops most people."
~ Don Shula
"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."
~ Mike Murdock
"Successful people never choose short-term comfort over long-term benefit."
~ Jim Rohn
"The key to success is to start before you are ready."
~ Marie Forleo
"The way to get things done is to stop saying 'later' as in 'I'll do it later'. 'Later' is just another word for 'never'."
~ Ruth Barringham
"Just start. Don't worry that you don't have all the answers yet."
~ Alli Webb
"The only thing in your control is your effort. That's all and that's everything."
~ Mark Cuban
"The whole world could believe in you, but if YOU don't believe in you, it all means nothing."
~ Brian Tracy
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You reach a point where you don't work for money."
~ Walt Disney
"Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night."
~ Zig Ziglar
"Don't stop until you're proud of what you've accomplished."
~ Brian Tracy
"There are no unreasonable goals, only unreasonable deadlines"
~ Brian Tracy
"If you don't have time to do it right, what makes you think you'll have time to do it over?"
~ Seth Godin
"People romanticize their plan but dread the execution. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding."
~ Author unknown
"Lack of time is actually lack of priorities."
~ Tim Ferriss
"You don't get what you wish for, you get what you work for."
~ Brian Tracy
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
~ Walt Disney
"99% commitment is like no commitment...it’s 100% or nothing."
~ T Harv Eker
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
~ Steve Jobs
"It's always too early to quit."
~ Norman Vincent Peale
"Dream big, work hard and make your dreams a reality."
~ Brian Tracy
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
~ Mark Twain
"Work while others are wishing."
~ Thomas A. Edison
"Get lost in the activities you love. If something brings you joy, immerse yourself in it fully."
~ Daily Zen
"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."
~ Jane Smiley
"The start is what stops most people."
~ Don Shula
"Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless."
~ Gary Vaynerchuck
"Your playing small doesn't serve the world."
~ Marianne Williamson
"Simplicity is the key to brilliance."
~ Bruce Lee
"Ideas are the beginning of all achievement."
~ Bruce Lee
People who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it."
~ George Bernhard Shaw
"There's a word for a writer who never gives up – Published."
~ Joe Konrath
"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently."
~ Marie Forleo
"Generate leads with information about solving problems, not information about the product itself."
~ Perry Marshall
"Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
~ Jim Rohn
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
~ Aristotle
"Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling."
~ Arundhati Roy
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."
~ Tchaikovsky
"The only way to learn to write is to write and write and write and write, and write and write and write."
~ Albert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history.
"The difference... between the person who says he 'wishes to be a writer' and the person who says he 'wishes to write'... the former desires to be pointed out at cocktail parties, the latter is prepared for the long solitary hours at a desk."
~ John Mortimer
"Starve your distraction, feed your focus."
~ David Coleman
"Follow your heart but take your brain with you."
~ Alfred Adler
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
~ Henry Ford
"There's no problem for which a great sales letter can't be the solution."
~ Gary Halbert
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."
~ Philip Sidney
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
~ Rumi
"When your goals inspire you, when you believe and act on them, you will accomplish them."
~ Jim Rohn
"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."
~ Lowell Thomas
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.""
~Zig Zaglar
"Find the key emotion, this may be all you need know to find your short story."
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
"Wherever you are, be there. When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two."
~ Jim Rohn
"It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine."
~ Madeleine L'Engle
"The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
~ Herbert Kaufman