Quotes About Motivation

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

While the best men are guided by love, most men are still goaded by fear.

The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

If you're constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.