Motivation Quotes - Page 2

We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The breakfast of champions is not cereal it's the opposition.

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful rich and famous but if those are our goals we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

Phyllis Whitney

I wish it I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Juvenal

Necessity who is the mother of our invention.

Plato

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

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

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

Robert H. Jackson

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Pat Riley

In my experience there is only one motivation and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

Everyone expects to go further than his father went everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

William Allen White

To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Barbara Walters

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder convince yourself that if you miss it you will be embarrassed and poor.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living a support in misfortune an education or future security.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Plato

Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.

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. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.

Plato

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Abraham Lincoln

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.

Basil W. Maturin

Accurate information is a key part of motivation.

Mary Ann Allison

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.

I believe in using words not fists.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.

Elizabeth Inchbald

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.

When you get hungry enough you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Luigi Pirandello

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Katherine Mansfield

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

They never die who have the future in them.

Meridel Le Sueur

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness to love and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

Take away the cause and the effect ceases.

Miguel de Cervantes

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated discipline will take care of itself.

Sir Alexander Paterson

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young plain old poverty can be enough along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it don't become a writer.

Leon Uris

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.

One man with a dream at pleasure Shall go forth and conquer a crown And three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.

Carolyn Kenmore

Be careful how you live your life, millions are watching you. You may be inspiring or uninspiring many.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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