Quotes About Motivation

you must everywhere build on piles of your own driving.

We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.

If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. Greatest Thing in the World.

a man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.

No man burns down his own house on the theory that the need to rebuild it will stimulate his energies.

No man burns down his own house on the theory that the need to rebuild it will stimulate his energies. After

To think at all requires a purpose, no matter how vague. The best thinking, however, requires a definite purpose, and the more definite this purpose the more definite will be our thinking. Therefore in taking up any special line of thought, we must first find just what our end or purpose is, and thus get clearly in mind what our problems are.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

My dear young lady,' said her distinguished friend, 'isn't to live exactly what I'm trying to persuade you to take the trouble to do?

But I care myself if I tell fibs; I never tell them unless there's something rather good to be gained.

What's a man,' she pursued, 'especially an ambitious one, without a variety of ideas?

It was the idea . . . that led me straight out . . . of the inner chamber of my dread.

In short, the truth of the matter was, Nippers knew not what he wanted. Or, if he wanted any thing

As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

When you can't create, you can work

Le besoin de se surpasser doit être instinctif et non pas théorique ou seulement plausible.

people who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work - which is nothing, at bottom, but the doctrine of inertia.

Between laughs I could hear my mother's words ringing in my ears. "Why don't you write something that will sell?

If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.

Nothing is more obscene than inertia. More blasphemous than the bloodiest oath is paralysis.

Leaders ought never to allow the least motivated members of an organization to set the pace for the others. Rather

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.