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Quotes About Motivation

Branch Rickey made me a better man.
~ Branch Rickey
The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
~ Brian Herbert
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
~ Bruno Rossi
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.
~ C. S. Lewis
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
~ Charles Lindbergh
The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.
~ Chris Jericho
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
~ Colin Wilson
I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls.
~ Cristina Saralegui
Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.
~ Dalai Lama
Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.
~ David Frum
A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
~ Denise Mina
I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.
~ Drew Carey
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
~ Franklin Knight Lane
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I dont know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.
~ Gaines Adams
Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
~ George W. Buck