Quotes About Motivation

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

What one man can think, another man can do.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.