Quotes About Motivation

I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.

Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'

I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

One can always push oneself a little bit beyond what only yesterday was thought to be the absolute limit of one's endurance,

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action.

O intelecto não é uma luz que arde sem óleo, mas é alimentado pela vontade e pelas paixões.

There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like. There, why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other.

There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

Sí, sí, el depósito de su virilidad, el origen de su fuerza, se encontraba mellado, exhausto, agónico, perdido y absolutamente sordo y desmotivado....

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.

Frank Bettger

It's not a question of money. After you reach a certain point, money becomes unimportant. What matters is success. The sensible thing would be for me to stop now. But I can't. I have to keep aiming higher and higher just for the thrill.

I always had the belief that I could beat anyone. That's what drove me on in my career.

I give people hope.

Someday Isle is not a dream vacation spot. It is an imaginary destination to which you will never arrive. It is the carrot on the stick perpetually in front of you. So close you can see it, yet you will never reach it. Don't vacation on Someday Isle.