Motivation Quotes

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes fro...

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the thing...

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day yo...

We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, wi...

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destr...

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them ...

Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with ...

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these a...

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it....

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playi...

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for ...

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.

What do you expect—not indifference or ingratitude?’ (-Miss Benson) ‘It is better not to expect or c...

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as ...

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he wa...

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselv...

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well onl...

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degra...

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

To all my enemies, I will destroy it.

Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we li...

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them...

Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do ...

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing ...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things...

It is always easy to break one’s word to oneself.

There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are childre...

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...

We can't always have our druthers.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And...

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished i...

True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the gro...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder convince yourself tha...

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than m...

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all o...

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And d...

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you p...

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains...

It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his ...

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest c...

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy ...

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in stud...

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa wh...

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we c...

Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability....

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply ...

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

I’ve always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he’s able to motivate one other perso...

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence too: what Steinbeck called a blend of fait...

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a c...

Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitabl...

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...

Live Long and Prosper

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she ...

[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was young...

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

The road to success is always under construction

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.