Quotes About Motivation

Basketball rule #3 Never let anyone lower your goals Other's expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is the limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun And you _will_ shine.

In short—to overstate the point only slightly—because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.

I am listening to the wind, to the voice in the wind telling me to write it all down. So I do.

I've always believed that anyone can achieve their dreams, regardless. I've always had this attitude about no excuses. A belief that I can go on and do what I need to do. To go on, to succeed, regardless.

All right, Claudia. Give us what you've got.

Without hope, what would be the use of going on?

1 Make a slit in a tennis ball and drop a treat inside.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

Nicio activitate nu poate fi trainica daca nu se intemeiaza pe interesul personal

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more. To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had. I write.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Indeed, Hilda was always putting her oar in, constituting herself the voice of conscience; she was a task-mistress, leading the chorus, undefined, unrecognised, but clearly felt, of those who thought he ought to try more, do more, be more, than he had it in him to try, or do, or be.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

What seems like generosity is often but a disguised ambition, which overlooks little interests, in order to gratify great ones.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

If you have a will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure!