I'm pretty sure this quote is a sarcastic exaggeration meant to ridicule the idea that motivation magically appears just by waiting for "some day"

@imustbeabigot thank you!

I agree with @kumagai and congrats on such an awesome achievement!

I'm just saying motivation has to come from somewhere. It doesn't just happen because you want it to. And it usually comes from getting fed up enough to just try to do something, even though you still don't want to at all. But then once you see the results of what you did, that's when you start to get motivated to continue. Like I never used to workout because I was depressed and had no motivation. But one day I just decided to do 1 minute of exercise because it takes no motivation to do 1 minute, and it was easy. Then I just added another minute because it was still easy, and so on. Now 2 years later I've gained 30lbs of muscle and workout everyday. Seeing results is what gave me motivation. If I'd waited until I felt like working out to start, I'd still be waiting.

Of course you need motivation to see something through, but if you can start something without motivation, that doesn't really apply.

You need motivation even more after taking action, because taking action once gets you nothing. Consistent action over a long period of time is the only thing that causes change. And for that, great motivation is required.

Once you have done the action, you no longer need motivation.

The interesting thing about motivation is that it doesn't come before action, it comes after. So if you wait until you're motivated to take action, you never do anything. But if you start taking action, motivation will actually appear automatically after a little while on its own.