Motivation Quotes

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.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Y...

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how ...

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when yo...

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

I built an idea in my head of the hero I wanted to be, a grab bag of traits from heroes, villains, a...

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Som...

Fear is a powerful stimulant.

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of ...

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools...

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Grea...

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach...

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

All great achievements require time.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew...

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ...