Motivation Quotes
I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all o...
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We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And d...
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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...
Show MoreThe heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains...
Show MoreIt is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his ...
Show MoreBooks—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...
Show MoreOne of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy ...
Show MoreThe vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in stud...
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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa wh...
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How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...
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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...
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Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability....
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We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply ...
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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.
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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...
Show MoreTalent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence too: what Steinbeck called a blend of fait...
Show MoreThe antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a c...
Show MoreMento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitabl...
Show MoreI 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...
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Live Long and Prosper
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she ...
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[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was young...
Show MoreI 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...
Show MoreAbility is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how ...
Show MoreYou're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when yo...
Show MoreIt 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...
Show MoreIf 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...
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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 ...
Show MoreNecessity 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...
Show MoreThere is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...
Show MoreIt’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Grea...
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I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach...
Show MoreThe 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.
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What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew...
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I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ...
Show MoreThe single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zer...
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Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Take away the cause and the effect ceases.
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, yo...
Show MoreThe poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chai...
Show More...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changi...
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not,...
Show MoreWhen defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set...
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and ac...
Show MoreTrue endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're d...
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like ...
Show MoreWhere the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" — The Son of Aba — a Servian tran...
Show MoreEdison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical metho...
Show MoreIf you give up every time you don't achieve the immediate gain you want, you're just guaranteeing th...
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When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation thin...
Show MoreIf you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even ...
Show MoreThe greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't ...
Show MoreWe are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in...
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Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards gett...
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To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the uni...
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Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and...
Show MoreHuman behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.
Necessity who is the mother of our invention.
Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn an...
Show MorePoverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...
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As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your...
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Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d ...
Show MoreThe greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members...
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