Quotes About Motivation

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

A man talking fast has something to hide.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

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

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

I think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.