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Quotes About Motivation

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.
~ Rahm Emanuel
If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
~ Randy Jackson
When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.
~ Rapsody
Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.
~ Richelle Mead
God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!
~ Rick Warren
If you want something new, then come up with a new idea and take action.
~ Debasish Mridha
We do things because we want it, not because they're good for us.
~ Dominic Riccitello
If you want a bright future, ignite your desire filled action today.
~ Debasish Mridha
We often what to be a success but we don't know why.
~ Debasish Mridha
If you don't want to leave your home, how can you begin your journey to what you want?
~ Debasish Mridha
If you don't have a goal and don't know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are just drifting around. (You'll never get anywhere)
~ Ahmed Ali Anjum
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
~ Hermann Goring
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
~ Frederick The Great
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
~ Hans Blix
I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.
~ J. E. B. Stuart
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
~ Duke of Wellington
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"
~ Duke of Wellington
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
~ E. Jean Carroll
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
~ Ayn Rand
It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.
~ Kato Kiyomasa
Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.
~ Robert G. Allen
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
~ Shimon Peres